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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
Aphorist
Architectural Theoretician
Epistemologist
Logician
Mathematician
Philosopher
Philosopher Of Language
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Teacher
Vienna
Austria
Words
Littles
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Probes
Depth
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Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
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A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.
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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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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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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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The form is the possibility of the structure.
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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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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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I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
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Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.
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The face is the soul of the body.
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For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
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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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With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
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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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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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We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.
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When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
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