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“My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is a profound and influential text that delves into the complexities of human thought and understanding. The book is structured as a series of dialogues and reflections, examining concepts such as meaning, truth, and the nature of philosophical problems. Wittgenstein challenges traditional philosophical assumptions and proposes a new approach to understanding language and its role in shaping our perceptions of the world. more

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, renowned for his profound contributions to language, logic, and philosophical methods. His ideas have had a significant impact on the development of analytic philosophy and philosophy of language. more

“Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is not magic, except as human beings are magical. Nor is it concerned in absolutes, eternities, "forms," beyond those that may reside in the context of the human being and be subject to his vicissitudes. Art is not an inner state of consciousness, whatever that may mean. Neither is it essentially a supreme form of communication. Art is human behavior, and its values are contained in human behavior.”

“Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.”

Way Art Movement Stones Dance Tone Muscles Dance Is Life

Author:Baker Brownell

“I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a vain and misconceived effort because the very fact of giving an allegorical sense to a presentation clearly shows that we have to do with a fable which by itself has no truth either fantastic or direct; it was made for the demonstration of some moral truth.”

Giving Art Made Facts Shows Hate Order Loses Effort Moral Movement Direct Machines I Hate Fantastic Vain Spontaneous Presentation Demonstration Symbolic Fables Allegory

Author:Luigi Pirandello

“Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.”

Ifs Doe Earth Pieces Staring Yield Doing Nothing

Author:Luigi Pirandello

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