Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes About Difficulty

Quotes about: Difficulty

• The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Difficulty, Knows

  "The Blue Book" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, (p. 45), 1965.

• One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Stupid, Learning, Prejudice

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.255, John Wiley & Sons

• What makes a subject difficult to understand — if it is significant, important — is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  People, Understanding, Important

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.161, Hackett Publishing

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