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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian
Philosopher
About the author
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Wonder
#Science
#Man
#Sleep
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Cleverness
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Tragedy
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#World
#Logic
#Truth
#Falsehood
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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Want
#Peace
#Question
#Questions
#Discovery
#Philosophy
The world is independent of my will.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Will
#World
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#World
#Facts
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Imagination
#Word
What can be shown, cannot be said.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Philosophy
You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Language
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#World
#Language
#Limits
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Language
#Battle
#Intelligence
#Philosophy
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Truth
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#May
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Theory
#Philosophy
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Today
#War
#Eyes
#Fashion
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Soul
#Body
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Nothing
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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Nothing
#Open
#Trying
#Philosophy
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Being
#Culture
#Present
#Night
#Religion
#Attitude
#Church
#Religious
#Sex
#Ceremony
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Nothing
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Walking
#Sleep
#Snow
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Lie
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Language
#Mankind
#Behavior
The face is the soul of the body.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Soul
#Body
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Language
#Word
#Misleading
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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Life
#Nature
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."
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Culture
#Vanity
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#People
#Nothing
#Silly
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Will
#Sun
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Questions
#Concern
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Talk
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Language
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Harmony
#Thought
#Language
#Reality
#Grammar
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#World
#Logic
#Body
#Doctrine
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Logic
#Mistakes
#Sense
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Pretty
#Order
A confession has to be part of your new life.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Life
#Confession
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Logic
#Care
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#People
#World
#Spirits
#Humor
#Germany
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Nothing
#Man
#Religious
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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Problems
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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Life
#Death
#Experience
#Present
#Infinite
#Eternity
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Work
#Jokes
A picture is a fact.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Fact
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Word
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 Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Will
#Man
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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#People
#Music
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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#Public
#Thinking
#Man
#Consciousness
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
Ludwig Wittgenstein,
Austrian
Philosopher
#End
#Knowledge