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• We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Enough, Whole, Seeing

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.205, John Wiley & Sons

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• Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mean, Humor, People

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• Elementary propositions consist of names.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Names, Logic, Language

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.89, Routledge

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• 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”

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• That the world is, is the mystical.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World, Mystical

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• Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Giving, Use

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1973). “Philosophical investigations”

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• Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all exists. This astonishment cannot be expressed in the form of a question, and there is also no answer whatsoever. Anything we might say is a priori bound to be nonsense. Nevertheless we do run up against the limits of language. Kierkegaard too saw that there is this running up against something, and he referred to it in a fairly similar way (as running up against paradox). This running up against the limits of language is ethics.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Running, Men, Thinking

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• Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Contradiction, Tautology

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.15, Clube de Autores

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• My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Ladders, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.89, Psychology Press

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• My attitude towards him is an attitude towards a soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul. . . .

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Attitude, Soul, Opinion

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons

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• You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Hurt, Thinking, Willing

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• Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'. ... 'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Kings, Book, Thinking

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• A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Thinking, Example

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• If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mind, Able, Has Beens

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

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• Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Use, May

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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• "It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given." This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Impossible, Given, Props

  "Ludwig Wittgenstein : The Duty of Genius". Book by Ray Monk, 1990.

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• Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Math, Order

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, Charles Kay Ogden (1998). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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• I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Climbing

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• Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Book, Mathematical Logic

  "Recollections of Wittgenstein". Book by Rush Rhees, 1984.

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• A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Language, Repeats, Lays

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

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• What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Definitions, Gains, Should

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1965). “Preliminary Studies for the "Philosophical Investigations": Generally Known as the Blue and Brown Books”

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• I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church.... Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mean, Thinking, Church

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• I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Certainty, My Own

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Believe, Proof, Results

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• The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaphysical subject, the boundary (not a part) of the world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Self, Soul

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1961). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”

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