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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
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I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
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Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.
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Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.
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The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
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