Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes About Attitude

Quotes about: Attitude

• If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Attitude, Thinking, Important

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 53e), 1980.

• 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.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Funny, Attitude, Common Sense

  "Personal Recollections" by Rush Rhees, Ch. 6, 1981.

• My attitude towards him is an attitude towards a soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul. . . .

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Attitude, Soul, Opinion

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons

• Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Religious, Sex, Attitude

  "Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism". Book by Richard Thomas Eldridge. Chapter: "Conversations with Wittgenstein", p. 130, 1997.

• I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Attitude, Philosophy, Thinking

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