Austrian - Philosopher | April 26, 1889 - April 29, 1951
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
LanguageBehaviorUnknownSystem
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
ProblemKnowWayFormAbout
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
ProcessNeedInnerOutwardCriteria
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
ManNothingReligiousTragicTruly
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
GreatFreeProblemsViewProblem
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
LanguageComplicatedThanOurPart
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
TruthNeverWholeThenFrightened
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
TomorrowSunRiseKnowWillMeans
You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
PainLanguageYouConceptLearned
A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.
SaidNothingWillServeSomething
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