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A picture is a model of reality.
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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Golden is a surface colour.
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This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
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The world divides into facts.
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So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
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A logical picture of facts is a thought.
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The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.
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Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
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Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
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Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.
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What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.
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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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Aim at being loved without being admired.
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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
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Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.
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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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We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.
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