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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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Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.
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The face is the soul of the body.
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Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
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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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One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
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Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
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Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.
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This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
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It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
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You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
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Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.
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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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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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Golden is a surface colour.
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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
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At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
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A picture is a model of reality.
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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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Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
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If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
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