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You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
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Architectural Theoretician
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Philosopher Of Language
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Vienna
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
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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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Aim at being loved without being admired.
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Tell them I've had a wonderful life.
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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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The depressed man lives in a depressed world.
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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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