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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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Architectural Theoretician
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Philosopher Of Language
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Vienna
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Language
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The form is the possibility of the structure.
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Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.
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There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors.
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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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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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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
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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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It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
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Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
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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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Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.
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