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• The philosopher’s treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.

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• The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known. Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

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• The world is all that is the case.

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• Music conveys to us itself!

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  Eternal belongs to those who live in the present.

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• A logical picture of facts is a thought.

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• The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.

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• We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

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• What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

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• How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

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• Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

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• Perhaps what is inexpressible is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.

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• The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

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• Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

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

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• The real question of life after death isn’t whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

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• 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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• 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.

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• What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.

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• Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein (77)

Birth:	26th April, 1889
Death:	29th April, 1951
Nationality:	Austrian, British
Profession:	Philosopher

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