Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
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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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To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
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You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.
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It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. (6.44)
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Philosophy hasn’t made any progress?-If someone scratches where it itches, do we have to see progress? Is it not genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching?
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To obey a rule, to make a report, to give an order, to play a game of chess, are customs (uses, institutions)
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I am my world. (The microcosm.) (5.63)
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The problems are dissolved in the actual sense of the word - like a lump of sugar in water.
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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.
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Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.
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One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.
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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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'Everything is already there in....' How does it come about that an arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - 'No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that.' - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.
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A confession has to be part of your new life.
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It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
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Though a state of affairs that would contravene the laws of physics can be represented by us spatially, one that would contravene the laws of geometry cannot. (3.0321)
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I would really like to slow down the speed of reading with continual punctuation marks. For I would like to be read slowly. (As I myself read.)
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One might say: art shows us the miracles of nature. It is based on the concept of the miracles of nature.
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'Fare well!' 'A whole world of pain is contained in these words.' How can it be contained in them? - It is bound up in them. The words are like an acorn from which an oak tree can grow.
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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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People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them - that does not occur to them.
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You could attach prices to ideas. Some cost a lot some little. … And how do you pay for ideas? I believe: with courage.
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Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.