Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
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When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
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The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
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Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say:;: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.
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It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.
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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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I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.
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Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.
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An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.
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The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.
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A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
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The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
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What is thinkable is also possible.
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A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.
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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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We must plow through the whole of language.
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That the world is, is the mystical.
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For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
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I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church.... Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink.
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One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.
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Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.
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Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs
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In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.
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Aim at being loved without being admired.
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A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
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All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.
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The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
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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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The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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