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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Biography : Austrian-British philosopher.
Born: 1889 - Died: 1951
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Austria
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The world is independent of my will.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus / 






Essence is expressed in grammar.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations / 






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






It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
Ludwig Wittgenstein






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






A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein






Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
Ludwig Wittgenstein






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






I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
Ludwig Wittgenstein






Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Ludwig Wittgenstein






When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
Ludwig Wittgenstein






The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
Ludwig Wittgenstein






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






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






My difficulty is only an — enormous — difficulty of expression.
Ludwig Wittgenstein






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