worlds shortest quote [Wittgenstein]
"Good!"
-- Wittgenstein's reply to his doctor informing him
about his terminal prostate cancer
Interesting fact about Wittgenstein -
-as a classmate in Linz school was none other than
Adolf Hitler (both born in 1889), its hard to imagine
two such diverse people than Ludwig Wittgenstein
and Hitler
-Three of his siblings committed suicide
-Scientists, schollars and professors still tries to decipher
his book "Tractatus Logico-Philosophus"
Other quotes by him -
"The limits of my language means the limits of my world. "
"If we spoke a different language,
we would perceive a somewhat different world."
"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal
duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs
to those who live in the present."
"The limits of my language are the limits of my mind.
All I know is what I have words for. "
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