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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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Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
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My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright.
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What can be shown, cannot be said.
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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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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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I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.
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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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One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.
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If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.
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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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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
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All I know is what I have words for.
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Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.
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If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.
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