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To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.
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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We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
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Suppose someone follows the series 1,3,5,7, .., and in writing the series 2x+1 and he asked himself But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time? If from one day to the next someone promises: Tomorrow I will give up smoking, does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?
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Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
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The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.
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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 human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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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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There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors.
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There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.
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Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.
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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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If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
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In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.
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And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.
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The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
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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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The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
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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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