Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality, Moats, Rift

• Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality, Language, Harmony

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1974). “Philosophical Grammar: Part I, The Proposition, and Its Sense, Part II, On Logic and Mathematics”, p.162, Univ of California Press

• Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Reality, Mirrors

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.28, Clube de Autores

• Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Math, Reality

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.26, University of Chicago Press

• A picture is a model of reality.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality, Models

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.3, Clube de Autores

• Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Reality, Theory

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.9, Routledge

• I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality, True And False, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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