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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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At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
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It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?
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What is thinkable is also possible.
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Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.
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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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What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.
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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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In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.
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A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.
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Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
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Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.
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One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.
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Aim at being loved without being admired.
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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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Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday
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Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
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Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.
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