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Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
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The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
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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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One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.
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One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.
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If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
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We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
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And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.
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At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
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It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.
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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
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When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly .
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If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.
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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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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
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We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.
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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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A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.
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Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!
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