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One must always be prepared to learn something totally new.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Be Prepared, Prepared

Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, Linda L. McAlister, Margarete Schättle (2007). “Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben”, Univ of California Press

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Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Depth, Littles, Very Deep

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.82, University of Chicago Press

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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy, Philosophical, Humor

Garth Hallett, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1977). “A companion to Wittgenstein's "Philosophical investigations"”, Cornell Univ Pr

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One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Technique, Use, Language

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About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Speak, Silent, Can Not

"Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1922.

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What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.77, University of Chicago Press

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Ambition is the death of thought.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ambition

"Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 77e), 1980.

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To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Thinking, Following

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To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

God, Believe, Mean

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.57, University of Chicago Press

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Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Reality, Moats, Rift

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The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Happiness, Determination, Different

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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Fitness, Communication, Philosophical

Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons

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Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Science, Understanding, Mathematics

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Religious, Philosophical, Men

Conversation in 1930. "Ludwig Wittgenstein: Personal Recollections". Book by Rush Rhees, 1981.

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What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy, Philosophical, Bottles

Philosophical Investigations pt. 1, sec. 309 (1953)

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How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Eye, Hard, Fronts

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The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Creativity, Simplicity, Important

Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.135, John Wiley & Sons

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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.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Fashion, War, Eye

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There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Men, Light, Lenses

"Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 41e), 1980.

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If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Eternity, Live In The Present, Unending

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When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Home, Chaos, Feels

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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Thinking, Order, Should Have

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1998). “Wittgenstein's Tractatus”, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social

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Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Important, Lasts, Teach

"Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 85e), 1980.

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Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy, Common Sense, Three

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To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Believe, Mean, World

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.57, University of Chicago Press

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Born: April 26, 1889
Died: April 29, 1951
Occupation: Philosopher
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