Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes About Knowledge

Quotes about: Knowledge

• 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”

• Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Knowledge, Ends, Acknowledgement

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

• 'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of pain'-in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Pain, Memories, Moving

• Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lying, Philosophical, Knowledge

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (64e), 1980.

• We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Knowledge, Use, Knows

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

• Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Knowledge, Learning, Views

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.50, University of Chicago Press

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