Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

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• The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wisdom, Communication, Philosophical

  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Proposition 5.6 (1922)

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• Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Silence

  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) preface

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• Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Clever, Intelligent, Valleys

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 76e), 1980.

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• When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking

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• Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Deception, Investing, Deceiving

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 34e), 1980.

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• All I know is what I have words for.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Vocabulary, Vocabulary Words, Knows

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

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• If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Communication, Different, World

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• A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Men

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 42e), 1980.

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• We learn by rearranging what we know.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Rearranging, Knows

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• What is thinkable is also possible.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Imagination, Thinkable

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Happiness, Sarcastic, Philosophy

  "The Beginning of the End" by Peter Hershey, (p. 109), 2004.

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• The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life Is, Live In The Present, Given

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• Only describe, don't explain.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

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• If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Inspirational, Education, Dream

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 50e), 1980.

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• Don't look for the meanings; look for the use.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Looks, Use, Using Me

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• We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Dream, Wake Up, Sometimes

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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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• What can be shown, cannot be said.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Said

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “The Tractatus According to Its Own Form”, p.80, Lulu.com

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• The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Real, Doe, Problem

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

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Eye, Familiarity

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

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• Language disguises thought.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Language, Disguise

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

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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. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Giving

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1961). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus: The German Text of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung”, p.57, Linkgua digital

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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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• Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Profound, Saint, Lasts

  "Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard on the ethico-religious". Ideas in History, Vol. 1, 2006.

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