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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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A confession has to be part of your new life.
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A logical picture of facts is a thought.
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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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If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.
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If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
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Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.
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Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs
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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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This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
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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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Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.
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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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A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in.
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If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.
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