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• It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Philosopher, Problem

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 75e), 1980.

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• Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus were incorporated in it; for these are, so to speak, suburbs of our language. (And how many houses or streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Squares, Cities, Symbolism

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• A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Boxers, Philosopher

  "Personal Recollections" by Rush Rhees, Ch. 6, (Conversation of 1930), 1981.

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• Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Nonsensical, Found

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.22, Psychology Press

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• Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Clothes, Body, Language

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.63, Routledge

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• Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Understanding, Doe, Add

  "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, p. 7-8, 1970.

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• A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Language, Repeats, Lays

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

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• To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mean, Technique, Language

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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• Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Irritation, Long

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• I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Science, Mathematics, Process

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, Rush Rhees, Georg Henrik Wright (1967). “Remarks on the foundations of mathematics”

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• The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Law, Assuming, Made

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2015). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.131, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We must plow through the whole of language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Language, Whole

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.131, Hackett Publishing

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• A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wall, Dirty, Color

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• Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Ugly

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1967). “Zettel, 40th Anniversary Edition”, Univ of California Press

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• If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Writing, Style, Deceit

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• How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

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• An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

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• There can never be surprises in logic.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Math, Logic, Surprise

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.28, Clube de Autores

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• A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Way, Problem

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.133, John Wiley & Sons

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• 6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, Events, Duration

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.190, Routledge

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• White must be the lightest color in a picture.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Color, White

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• I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Glasses, Firsts

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• We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Enough, Whole, Seeing

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.205, John Wiley & Sons

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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?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Impossible, Understood, One Word

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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.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Math, Order

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, Charles Kay Ogden (1998). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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