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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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I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
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There can never be surprises in logic.
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A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
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Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
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Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.
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In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.
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A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
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If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.
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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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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
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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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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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Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.
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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
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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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You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.
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It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given. This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.
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That the world is, is the mystical.
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Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
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Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs
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