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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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A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.
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Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.
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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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Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.
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When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
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Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
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One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.
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The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
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All mathematics is tautology.
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
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Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.
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We must plow through the whole of language.
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One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.
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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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Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.
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Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain
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Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
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