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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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All I know is what I have words for.
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So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
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Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
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One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.
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The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
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We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.
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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
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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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Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
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Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.
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When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
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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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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
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Language disguises the thought so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.
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This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
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Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.
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Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
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I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
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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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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
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