So in the end, when one is doing philosophy, one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

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So in the end, when one is doing philosophy, one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.

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About Ludwig Wittgenstein

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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Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

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The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit -not a part of the world.
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If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.

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La Ética, en tanto surge del deseo de decir algo acerca del significado último de la vida, del bien absoluto, de lo absolutamente valioso, no puede ser una ciencia. Lo que dice no le agrega nada a nuestro conocimiento en ningún sentido. Pero es un testimonio de una tendencia de la mente humana que yo, personalmente, no puedo si no respetar profundamente y que no ridiculizaría jamás, aunque mi vida dependiera de ello

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