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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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Philosopher Of Language
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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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I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.
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Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.
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There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors.
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Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.
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The world is made up of facts, not things.
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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The world divides into facts.
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Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
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You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.
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There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.
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A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
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A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in.
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People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.
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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
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The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.
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The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.
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Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?
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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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