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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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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


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


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


#best #best picture #body #human #human body

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


#cleverness #come #down #green #heights

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


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


#doctrine #logic #transcendental #world

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


#adjustment #combination #does #door #each

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


#clear #even #flight #free #get

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


#battle #intelligence #language #means #our

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


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


#discussions #goes #into #like #never

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.


— Ludwig Wittgenstein


#may #our #stupidities #very #wise






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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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