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Ludwig Wittgenstein  Quotes
But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting them on different shelves; nothing more being final about their positions...

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Philosophy
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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’.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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AtheismRationalityReligion-And-Philosophy
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The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics.The usual way of looking at...

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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ArtContemplationEthics
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Don’t for heaven’s sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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MeaningNonsense
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A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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IsolationLanguagePhilosophy
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Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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BeliefCausalitySuperstition
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There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must...

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Good-And-Evil
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The right method of philosophy would be this. To say nothing except what can be said, i.e. the propositions of natural science, i.e. something that has nothing to do with philosophy: and then always, when...

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Non-DualityNonsensePhilosophy
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Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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CommunicationMisunderstandingUnderstanding
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity;...

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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ApocalypseHistoryProgress
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The gramophone record, the musical thought, the score, the waves of sound, all stand to one another in that pictorial internal relation, which holds between language and the world.To all of them the logical structure...

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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LogicMeaningPhilosophy
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Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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BeliefCausal-NexusSuperstition
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I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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CertaintyIndividuality
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The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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InformationKnowledgeProblems
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The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit – not a part of the world.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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SelfThe-Philosophical-Subject
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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PhilosophyTaoism
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Music conveys to us itself!

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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MusicRevelation
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For remember that in general we don’t use language according to strict rules– it hasn’t been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare...

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Family-ResemblanceMeaningPhilosophy
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Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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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.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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ArchitectureFormImagination
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If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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CertaintyDoubtDoubting
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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.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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EducationMindSocial-Anxiety
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One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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AgeAgesArrogance
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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.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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AfterlifePhilosophyReligion
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Getting hold of the difficulty deep down is what is hard. Because if it is grasped near the surface it simply remains the difficulty it was. It has to be pulled out by the roots;...

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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ChangeCureHealing
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Some people’s taste is to an educated taste as is the visual impression received by a purblind eye to that of a normal eye. Where a normal eye will see something clearly articulated, a weak...

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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PerceptionPerspectivismSubjectivity
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6.4311Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht.Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt.Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie...

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Philosophy
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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Logic
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If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn’t be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you...

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Religion
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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HonestySelf-Delusion
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I am my world.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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PhilosophySolipsism
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A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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RealityReproduction
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476. Children do not learn that books exist, that armchairs exist, etc.,etc. – they learn to fetch books, sit in armchairs, etc.,etc.Later, questions about the existence of things do of course arise, “Is there such...

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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ExistenceMetaphysics
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Der Zweck der Philosophie ist die logische Klärung der Gedanken.Die Philosophie ist keine Lehre, sondern eine Tätigkeit.Ein philosophisches Werk besteht wesentlich aus Erläuterungen.Das Resultat der Philosophie sind nicht »philosophische Sätze«, sondern das Klarwerden von Sätzen.Die...

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Philosophy
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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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LanguagePerceptionPower-Of-Words
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There can never be surprises in logic.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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LogicSurprise
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Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

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Religion
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Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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IdenticalIdentityLogic
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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Philosophy
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Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in every part. Put him back into his proper element and everything will blossom and look healthy....

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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AlienationAtmosphereEnvironment
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Hell isn’t other people. Hell is yourself.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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HellSolipsism
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Language disguises thought.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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LinguisticsLogicPhilosophy
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Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another...

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Language
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But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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LogicPhilosophy
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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...

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Religion
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If you have a room which you do not want certain people to get into, put a lock on it for which they do not have the key. But there is no point in talking...

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

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CommunicationIntrovertedSolitude
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