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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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Philosopher Of Language
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You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
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It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.
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A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.
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Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.
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A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.
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One age misunderstands another and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.
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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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Suppose someone follows the series 1,3,5,7, .., and in writing the series 2x+1 and he asked himself But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time? If from one day to the next someone promises: Tomorrow I will give up smoking, does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
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Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain
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What is thinkable is also possible.
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What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.
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The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
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Don't think, but look! (PI 66)
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Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.
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Aim at being loved without being admired.
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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.
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When philosophers use a word--knowledge, being, object, I, proposition, name--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
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