“Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 85e

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Austrian-British philosopher 1889–1951

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“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”

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“If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.”

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“Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.”

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“Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.”

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