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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
Aphorist
Architectural Theoretician
Epistemologist
Logician
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Philosopher Of Language
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Vienna
Austria
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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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The form is the possibility of the structure.
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.
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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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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
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At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
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There can never be surprises in logic.
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I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.
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Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.
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Language disguises thought.
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Don't think, but look! (PI 66)
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Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.
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Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.
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And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.
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Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.
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All I know is what I have words for.
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Everything is already there in.... How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - No, not the dead line on paper only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that. - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.
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A confession has to be part of your new life.
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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
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