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The form is the possibility of the structure.
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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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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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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You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.
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All mathematics is tautology.
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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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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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Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.
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At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
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Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
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One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.
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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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