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You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.
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
Austria
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Hang
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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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My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.
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For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.
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If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
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When philosophers use a word--knowledge, being, object, I, proposition, name--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
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A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
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The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.
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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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Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?
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It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.
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Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.
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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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The world divides into facts.
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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
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We must plow through the whole of language.
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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