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All I know is what I have words for.

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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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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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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Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!
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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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A confession has to be part of your new life.
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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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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
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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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At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
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What is thinkable is also possible.
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My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.
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People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it.
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Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.
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Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.
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Language disguises the thought so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.
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Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color.
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Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
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