Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things w… - Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'.
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'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-born philosopher who spent much of his life in England.

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Native Name: Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein

Alternative Names: Ludwig Joseph Johann Wittgenstein • Wittgenstein

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Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly.

The specification of all true elementary propositions describes the world completely. The world is completely described by the specification of all elementary propositions plus the specification, which of them are true and which false.

What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.

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