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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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Vienna
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Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.
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Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
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Suppose someone follows the series 1,3,5,7, .., and in writing the series 2x+1 and he asked himself But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time? If from one day to the next someone promises: Tomorrow I will give up smoking, does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?
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My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright.
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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
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Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: Let's have done with it now, and it's having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.
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Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday
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Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.
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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
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It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?
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Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.
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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
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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 face is the soul of the body.
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We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.
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I am my world.
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If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
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We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.
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We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.
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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.
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