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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
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When philosophers use a word--knowledge, being, object, I, proposition, name--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
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What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.
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For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.
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Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.
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When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
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The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
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In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.
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Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.
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One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.
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The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
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The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.
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I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.
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