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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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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
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The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.
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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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What is thinkable is also possible.
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I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
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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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Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: Let's have done with it now, and it's having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.
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