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Austrian Philosopher April 26, 1889 – April 29, 1951

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It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him. Ludwig Wittgenstein
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples...."
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas,..."
The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "If a lion could talk, we could not understand him."
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy..."
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. Ludwig Wittgenstein
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. Ludwig Wittgenstein

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