Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

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• Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Silence

  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) preface

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

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wisdom, Communication, Philosophical

  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Proposition 5.6 (1922)

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• Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Deception, Investing, Deceiving

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 34e), 1980.

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• All I know is what I have words for.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Vocabulary, Vocabulary Words, Knows

  "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1922.

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• When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking

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• Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Clever, Intelligent, Valleys

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 76e), 1980.

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• The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life Is, Live In The Present, Given

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• If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Communication, Different, World

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• We learn by rearranging what we know.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Rearranging, Knows

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• What is thinkable is also possible.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Imagination, Thinkable

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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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 it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Men

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 42e), 1980.

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• I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Happiness, Sarcastic, Philosophy

  "The Beginning of the End" by Peter Hershey, (p. 109), 2004.

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• We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Dream, Wake Up, Sometimes

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• Only describe, don't explain.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

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• Don't look for the meanings; look for the use.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Looks, Use, Using Me

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• Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Architecture, Glorify

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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

  Real, Doe, Problem

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• Genius is talent exercised with courage.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Genius, Talent

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 38e), 1980.

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• If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Inspirational, Education, Dream

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 50e), 1980.

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• It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Problem, Easier, Solve

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.261, John Wiley & Sons

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• Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Giving

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1961). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus: The German Text of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung”, p.57, Linkgua digital

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• To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Following

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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

  Talking, Heaven, Attention

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 56e), 1980.

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• Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Hypothesis, Explanation

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.123, Hackett Publishing

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• Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Design, Said, Semantics

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “The Tractatus According to Its Own Form”, p.76, Lulu.com

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