Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes - Page 2

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• Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World, Mystery

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• Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Hypothesis, Explanation

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.123, Hackett Publishing

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• Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Mean

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

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• To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Following

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• Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

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  Architecture, Glorify

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• There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Reap, Remarks

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• To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Truth, Errors, Path

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.119, Hackett Publishing

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• To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.

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  Believe, Believe In God

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• Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Matter

  "Wittgenstein Reads Freud : The Myth of the Unconscious" by Jacques Bouveresse, as translated by Carol Cosman, (p. 14), 1996.

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• What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

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  Everyday, Use, Metaphysical

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.129, John Wiley & Sons

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• A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Humor

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

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• My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Patents, Pieces, Nonsense

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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• The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Logical, Clarification

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “The Tractatus According to Its Own Form”, p.76, Lulu.com

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• It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago I realised that I absolutely love lightly toasted bread. Simultaneously, I also realised that I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost sixty years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Years, Two Year Olds, Long

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• Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.57, University of Chicago Press

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• The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Clouds, Trying, Shapes

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• One must always be prepared to learn something totally new.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Be Prepared, Prepared

  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 problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Long, Giving, Information

  "Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir".

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• About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Speak, Silent, Can Not

  "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1922.

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• He who lives in the present lives in eternity.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Time, Eternity, Live In The Present

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• Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.

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  Body, Spirit, Language

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons

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• Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Fashion, War, Eye

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• The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Truth, Philosophical, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

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• Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  People, Hell

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• One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.

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  Eye, Familiarity

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.135, John Wiley & Sons

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