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Ethics and aesthetics are one.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
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Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.
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Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs
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All mathematics is tautology.
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Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
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Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
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Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.
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The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
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Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
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Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.
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You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
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If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
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Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
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The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.
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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
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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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Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.
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I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
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It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
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