Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Home, Chaos, Feels

• When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Home, Essence, Games

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1973). “Philosophical investigations”

• The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Home, Doe, Untruthfulness

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 41e), 1980.

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