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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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Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
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Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
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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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The form is the possibility of the structure.
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At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
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Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
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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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The depressed man lives in a depressed world.
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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
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It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
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People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it.
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself
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The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.
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We must plow through the whole of language.
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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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So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
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We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.
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All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.
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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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