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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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It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
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The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
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Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.
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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 world divides into facts.
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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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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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I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.
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It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
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Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
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Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.
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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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It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
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Ethics and aesthetics are one.
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For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.
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The world is made up of facts, not things.
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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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This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.
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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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Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color.
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