Austrian - Philosopher | April 26, 1889 - April 29, 1951
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
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One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
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Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
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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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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
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What can be shown, cannot be said.
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Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
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