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The depressed man lives in a depressed world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
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If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
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Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.
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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 human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors.
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The face is the soul of the body.
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.
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Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?
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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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We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.
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All mathematics is tautology.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.
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To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.
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