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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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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.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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A picture is a fact.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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The face is the soul of the body.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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Russell had agreed to write an introduction to explain why it was important because it was otherwise unlikely to have been publiLudwig Wittgensteind: it was difficult if not impossible to understand and Wittgenstein was unknown in philosophy. He wrote: "I was shown into Frege's study.

He was professor in philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1939 until 1947. He described philosophy however as "the only work that gives me real satisfaction. In the words of his friend and colleague Georg Henrik von Wright: "He was of the opinion.

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