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So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
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There can never be surprises in logic.
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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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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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For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
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The depressed man lives in a depressed world.
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Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!
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What can be shown, cannot be said.
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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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The form is the possibility of the structure.
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
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Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
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What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.
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Everything is already there in.... How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - No, not the dead line on paper only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that. - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.
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This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.
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A picture is a model of reality.
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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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I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
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