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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
Aphorist
Architectural Theoretician
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Philosopher Of Language
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Vienna
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Language
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All I know is what I have words for.
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Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.
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One must always be prepared to learn something totally new.
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.
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There can never be surprises in logic.
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This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
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Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
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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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Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.
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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
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Language disguises thought.
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When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
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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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One age misunderstands another and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.
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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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Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
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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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We must plow through the whole of language.
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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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