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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
Aphorist
Architectural Theoretician
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Logician
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Philosopher Of Language
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Vienna
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One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.
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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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An entire mythology is stored within our language.
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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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A confession has to be part of your new life.
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When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly .
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.
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Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
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Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.
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There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.
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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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Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.
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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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Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.
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I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.
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What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.
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It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.
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