Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lying, Father, Eye

• Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my surviving forever? Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Forever, Soul

  "Tractatus Logico Philosophicus".

• [M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Needs, Purpose, Existence

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.55, University of Chicago Press

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