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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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To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.
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Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
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Don't think, but look! (PI 66)
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I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.
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Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
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Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
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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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