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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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A confession has to be part of your new life.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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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.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.


— 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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