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Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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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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All mathematics is tautology.
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You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.
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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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Ethics and aesthetics are one.
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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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I am my world.
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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
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A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.
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Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.
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What can be shown, cannot be said.
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We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.
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We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.
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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
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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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Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.
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When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote
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Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: Let's have done with it now, and it's having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
