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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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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
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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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A logical picture of facts is a thought.
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It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
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At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
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What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.
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We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.
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If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.
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Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.
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If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
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Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
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Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.
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What can be shown, cannot be said.
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.
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The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.
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Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.
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An entire mythology is stored within our language.
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