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A logical picture of facts is a thought.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
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Philosopher Of Language
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Vienna
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The depressed man lives in a depressed world.
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A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here laugh, if you can.
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
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If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.
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The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.
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So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
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It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
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The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.
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Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.
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It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
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The world divides into facts.
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Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.
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Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: Let's have done with it now, and it's having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.
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Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.
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Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.
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One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.
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The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
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You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
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