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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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Architectural Theoretician
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Philosopher Of Language
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Vienna
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We must plow through the whole of language.
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The face is the soul of the body.
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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 age misunderstands another and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.
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The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
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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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There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors.
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There can never be surprises in logic.
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And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.
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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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Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.
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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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If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.
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One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.
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Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
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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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We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
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I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.
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Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
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