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Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
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If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
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The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.
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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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One age misunderstands another and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.
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This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
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Ethics and aesthetics are one.
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If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it it is like investigating mercury vapour in order to comprehend the nature of vapours.
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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.
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Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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