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For a large class of cases - ...

For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

We must do away with all expl...

We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

The difference between a good...

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

Nothing is more important for...

Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

It would strike me as ridicul...

It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

Death is not an event in life...

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

The philosophical I is not th...

The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaphysical subject, the boundary (not a part) of the world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

Imagine someone pointing to a...

Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

Ethics and aesthetics are one...

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

Philosophical problems arise ...

Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

A picture held us captive. An...

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

The aspects of things that ar...

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

If a person tells me he has b...

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

The subject does not belong t...

The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

Every sign by itself seems de...

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

It is not humanly possible to...

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereig...

6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

A picture whose pictorial for...

A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

To understand a sentence mean...

To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

When philosophers use a word-...

When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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