Gertrude Stein vs. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers

Gertrude Stein

1874 – 1946

Literature

United States

Modernism

Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, and art collector famed for her modernist writings and her Paris salon.

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"You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance."

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

1845 – 1925

Philosophy

Austria

analytic philosophy

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austro-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.

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"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."

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