Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes
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“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
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“The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”
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“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
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“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.”
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“The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”
-- Ludwig WittgensteinSource : "Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir".
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“Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”
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“An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.”
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“I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.”
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“I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.”
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“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
-- Ludwig WittgensteinSource : "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 34e), 1980.
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“This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.”
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“If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
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“A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.”
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“There can never be surprises in logic.”
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“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.”
-- Ludwig WittgensteinSource : "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 42e), 1980.
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“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.”
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“Language disguises thought.”
-- Ludwig WittgensteinSource : Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.8, Clube de Autores
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“The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.”
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“Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.”
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“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.”
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“It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.”
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“A confession has to be part of your new life.”
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“Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.”
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“The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.”
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“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”
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“It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'”
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“Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.”
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“Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.”
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“Aim at being loved without being admired.”
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“No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.”
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“To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.”
-- Ludwig WittgensteinSource : Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.119, Hackett Publishing
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“If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.”
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“Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.”
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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.”
-- Ludwig WittgensteinSource : "The Beginning of the End" by Peter Hershey, (p. 109), 2004.
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“Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.”
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“Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.”
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“If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.”
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“He who lives in the present lives in eternity.”
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“With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.”
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“Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.”
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“What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.”
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“You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”
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“It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.”
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“Tell them I've had a wonderful life.”
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“A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.”
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“The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.”
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“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
-- Ludwig WittgensteinSource : Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Proposition 5.6 (1922)
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“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
-- Ludwig WittgensteinSource : Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) preface
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“In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.”
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“If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.”
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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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“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
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“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.”
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“I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."”
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“The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.”
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“Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.”
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“Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.”
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“Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.”
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