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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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The world is independent of my will.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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The world is the totality of facts, not of things.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.


— 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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