Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes - Page 11

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• A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Stupidity, Valleys, Height

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• An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Needs, Process

  Garth Hallett, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1977). “A companion to Wittgenstein's "Philosophical investigations"”, Cornell Univ Pr

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• The face is the soul of the body.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Soul, Body

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• Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Different, Way, Produce

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, Linda L. McAlister, Margarete Schättle (2007). “Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben”, Univ of California Press

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• We must plow through the whole of language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Language, Whole

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.131, Hackett Publishing

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• You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Tree, Tragedy

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 1), 1980.

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• People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Art, Stupid, Ideas

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• Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Dark, Concepts

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, Linda L. McAlister, Margarete Schättle (2007). “Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben”, Univ of California Press

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• The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Peace, Philosophy, Real

  "Philosophical Investigations". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, § 133, 1953.

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• The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Law, Logic, Propositions

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1961). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus: The German Text of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung”, p.116, Linkgua digital

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• Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Change, Memories, Way

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• Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Philosopher, Problem

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• Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Lying, Views

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.177, Hackett Publishing

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• The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mean, Needs, Generations

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• 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

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• Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Teaching, Important, Constructs

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1982). “Last writings on the philosophy of psychology”

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• A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Moving, Experience, Wheels

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.225, John Wiley & Sons

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• Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Doctrine

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.29, Psychology Press

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• It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Mean, Sun

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.84, Psychology Press

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• It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Logic, Language, Disguise

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.8, Clube de Autores

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• There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Color, Criteria

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• Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Spiritual, Practice, Understanding

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.131, Hackett Publishing

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• People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, People, Confusion

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.185, Hackett Publishing

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• One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Truth, Remarks

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.24, University of Chicago Press

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• There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Light, Impression

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, Linda L. McAlister, Margarete Schättle (2007). “Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben”, Univ of California Press

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