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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 depressed man lives in a depressed world.
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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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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
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The world divides into facts.
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Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: Let's have done with it now, and it's having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.
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There can never be surprises in logic.
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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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My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.
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In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.
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Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.
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When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
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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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With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
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Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
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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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Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain
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Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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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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Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
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