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An entire mythology is stored within our language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
Aphorist
Architectural Theoretician
Epistemologist
Logician
Mathematician
Philosopher
Philosopher Of Language
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Teacher
Vienna
Austria
Mythology
Entire
Within
Language
Stored

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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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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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All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.
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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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Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
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Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.
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In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.
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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
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Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday
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When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote
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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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A logical picture of facts is a thought.
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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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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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You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.
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Elementary propositions consist of names.
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If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.
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We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.
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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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