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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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Philosopher Of Language
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Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.
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Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.
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To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
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This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.
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A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.
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Don't think, but look! (PI 66)
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What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.
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When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly .
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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
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A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
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