Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.) (4.464)
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387. I believe it might interest a philosopher, one who can think himself, to read my notes. For even if I have hit the mark only rarely, he would recognize what targets I had been ceaselessly aiming at.
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If life becomes hard to bear we think of improvements. But the most important and effective improvement, in our own attitude, hardly occurs to us, and we can decide on this only with the utmost difficulty.
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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
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Man könnte sagen: „Genie ist Mut im Talent.'
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One of the most difficult of the philosopher's tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches.
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I cannot get from the nature of the proposition to the individual logical operations!!! That is, I cannot bring out how far the proposition is the picture of the situation. I am almost inclined to give up all my efforts. --
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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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378. Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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It is quite impossible for a proposition to state that it itself is true. (4.442)
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To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.
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The world is all that is the case. (1)
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What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life.
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206. If someone asked us 'but is that true?' we might say 'yes' to him; and if he demanded grounds we might say 'I can't give you any grounds, but if you learn more you too will think the same.'
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A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in...
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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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I work quite diligently and wish that I were better and smarter. And these both are one and the same.
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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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Animals come when their names are called. Just like human beings.
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'It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given.' This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.