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Quotation by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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published in Personal Recollections, ed. Rush Rhees (1981)1930 entry Culture and Value, eds. G.H. von Wright and Heikki Nyman (1980)1938 entry Culture and Value, eds. G.H. von Wright and Heikki Nyman (1980)1940 entry Culture and Value, ed. G.H. von Wright and Heikki Nyman (1980)1948 entry Culture and Value, eds. G.H. von Wright and Heikki Nyman (1980)Related Subjects
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What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), Austrian philosopher. Notebooks 1914-1916, entry for September 2, 1915, ed. Anscombe (1961).
In Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, sect. 5:63 (1921, trans. 1922), Wittgenstein paraphrased: "I am my world. (The microcosm)."
In Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, sect. 5:63 (1921, trans. 1922), Wittgenstein paraphrased: "I am my world. (The microcosm)."
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