Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• 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 try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Religious, People, Trying

• One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Self Esteem, Belief, Mistrust

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1982). “Last writings on the philosophy of psychology”

• At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Inspirational, Lying, Deceit

• Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Superstitions, Belief, Nexus

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.17, Clube de Autores

• The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system of what is believed, and in that system some things stand unshakeably fast and some are more or less liable to shift. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Children, Lying, Believe

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

• The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have found, on all essential points, the final solution of the problems. And if I am not mistaken in this belief, then the second thing in which the value of this work consists is that it shows how little is achieved when these problems are solved.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Believe, Essentials, Finals

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1961). “Tractatus logico-philosophicus: The German text Logisch-philosophische abhandlung”

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