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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
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Philosopher Of Language
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For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.
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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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A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here laugh, if you can.
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Ethics and aesthetics are one.
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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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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.
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There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.
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For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.
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The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
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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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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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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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Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!
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When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
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Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: Let's have done with it now, and it's having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.
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Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
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