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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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All I know is what I have words for.
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What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.
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A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.
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The world divides into facts.
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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
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Elementary propositions consist of names.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.
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If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.
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We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.
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A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here laugh, if you can.
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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
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With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
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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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We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.
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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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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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Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.
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We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.
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