Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Knowledge, Mind, Stones

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

• A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, Thinking, Views

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

• The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Consciousness

  "Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951" edited by James Carl Klagge and Alfred Nordmann, Ch. 9, (p. 165), 1993.

• The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Self, Feelings, Brain

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