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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
Philosopher Of Language
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Vienna
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If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it it is like investigating mercury vapour in order to comprehend the nature of vapours.
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If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
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Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday
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Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.
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Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
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People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it.
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One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.
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To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.
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Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
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For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.
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To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.
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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.
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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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Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.
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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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We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.
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The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.
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The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
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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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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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