Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.
If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness.
If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.
If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.
A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.
A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.
A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.
Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!
This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.
If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children 'There are no fairies'; he can omit to teach them the word 'fairy'.
I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But, if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts of his own.
What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.
Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.
So in the end, when one is doing philosophy, one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.
What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
I am now in another hole, though I have to say, it is no better than the old one. Living with human beings is hard!
Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.
Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.
The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.
To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
There is no such thing as an isolated proposition. For what I call a "proposition" is a position in the game of language.
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.
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.