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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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Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.
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My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.
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Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color.
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Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.
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Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday
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What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?
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A confession has to be part of your new life.
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I am my world.
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The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.
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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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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
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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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All I know is what I have words for.
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It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?
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When philosophers use a word--knowledge, being, object, I, proposition, name--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.
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One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
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