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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
Professor
Teacher
Vienna
Austria
Probes
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Deep
Words
Littles
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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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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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You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself
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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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You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
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Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only.
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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
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Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.
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I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.
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I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
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I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
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A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
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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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Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.
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If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.
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So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
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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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