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Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.
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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Elementary propositions consist of names.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
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You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
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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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Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
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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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All I know is what I have words for.
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Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
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It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
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The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
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Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.
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Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs
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At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
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Tell them I've had a wonderful life.
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