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Quote of Ludwig Wittgenstein - Don't get involved in partial problems...


Biography - Ludwig Wittgenstein:

Austrian-British philosopher.
Born: 1889 - Died: 1951
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Austria
Austria

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.



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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.





As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.





Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.





The solution to the problem, which you see in life, lies in living in a way that makes the problems disappear.





Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.











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Ludwig Wittgenstein also said...


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





The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.





What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.





The meaning of a word is its use in the language.





Ethics and aesthetics are one and the same.





Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.












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