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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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Vienna
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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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Suppose someone follows the series 1,3,5,7, .., and in writing the series 2x+1 and he asked himself But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time? If from one day to the next someone promises: Tomorrow I will give up smoking, does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?
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When philosophers use a word--knowledge, being, object, I, proposition, name--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
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The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
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Aim at being loved without being admired.
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Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.
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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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A logical picture of facts is a thought.
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
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Tell them I've had a wonderful life.
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It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.
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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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At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
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Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain
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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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Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
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Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.
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Language disguises thought.
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We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
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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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