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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Judging, Reason, Fraud

  "Personal Recollections" by Rush Rhees, Ch. 6, 1981.

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• In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Order, Should Have

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “The Tractatus According to Its Own Form”, p.1, Lulu.com

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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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• The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather - not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought). It will therefore only be in language that the limit can be set, and what lies on the other side of the limit will simply be nonsense.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lying, Book, Thinking

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1998). “Wittgenstein's Tractatus”, McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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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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• The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Tasks, Analysis

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• The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Real, Eye, Men

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

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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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• The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Facts, Cases, Determine

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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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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• What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Silence, Logic, Speak

  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Proposition 7 (1922)

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• It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  History, Doubt, Earth

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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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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• 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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• For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Class, Use, Language

  "Philosophical Investigations" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, (§ 43), 1953.

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• There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Country, Philosophy, Book

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• We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Photography, Wall, Men

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• It is obvious that an imagined #‎ world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Real, Different, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.7, Psychology Press

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• If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Deals, Ifs

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 86e), 1980.

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• I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Details, Landscape, Way

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 56e), 1980.

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• Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wall, Eye, Color

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (1977). “Bemerkungen Über Die Farben”

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