Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes - page 2

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

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If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

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You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

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The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

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A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

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Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

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The world of the happy is quite different from the world of the unhappy. (6.43)

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

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.

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.

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The subject does not belong to the world, but it is a limit of the world.

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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

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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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If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: "This is simply what I do."

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For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

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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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One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

The logical picture of the facts is the thought. (3)

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At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.

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(on Sartre) Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.

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94. I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Occupation: Austrian Philosopher
Born: April 26, 1889
Died: April 29, 1951
Quotes count: 268
Wikipedia: Ludwig Wittgenstein

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