Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes - Page 14

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• Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Cutting, Transcendental, Sock

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• Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one's thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 75e), 1980.

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• So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Pay, Sometimes

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.41, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Skills, Philosopher

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.92, University of Chicago Press

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• 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

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• Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mistake, Philosophical, Looks

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.21, Clube de Autores

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• A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Impossible, Truth Is, Contradiction

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

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• All propositions are of equal value.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Logic, Language, Equal

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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• Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Civilization, Progress, Clarity

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• The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Consciousness

  "Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951" edited by James Carl Klagge and Alfred Nordmann, Ch. 9, (p. 165), 1993.

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• The form is the possibility of the structure.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Possibility, Structure, Form

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “The Tractatus According to Its Own Form”, p.7, Lulu.com

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• A confession has to be part of your new life.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Philosophical, Confession

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 18e), 1980.

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• White must be the lightest color in a picture.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Color, White

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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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• Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Limits, Unthinkable

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• If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from the southwest.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Blue, Wind, Yellow

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• Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Kissing, Burning, Way

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

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• Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say:;: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Different, Kind

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1974). “Philosophical Grammar: Part I, The Proposition, and Its Sense, Part II, On Logic and Mathematics”, p.122, Univ of California Press

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• In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Doe, Would Be, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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• This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Law, Psychological, Procedures

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• It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Giving, Logic

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.76, Psychology Press

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• Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  History, Said

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

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