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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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More quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein
When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
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Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.
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To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.
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One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
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Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.
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The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.
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The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
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Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color.
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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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A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.
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Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.
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Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
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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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A logical picture of facts is a thought.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
