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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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The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
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A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.
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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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The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
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A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
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The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.
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Suppose someone follows the series 1,3,5,7, .., and in writing the series 2x+1 and he asked himself But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time? If from one day to the next someone promises: Tomorrow I will give up smoking, does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?
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One age misunderstands another and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.
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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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It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
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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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We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.
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Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.
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Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.
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At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
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The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.
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I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.
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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
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