Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes - Page 5

Quotes about:

• Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Realism, Idealism, Ifs

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.79, University of Chicago Press

  14 Copy quote

• Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wise, Silly, Stupidity

  "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, p. 39e, 1980.

  10 Copy quote

• That the world is, is the mystical.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World, Mystical

  12 Copy quote

• 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

  54 Copy quote

• We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Description, Explanation

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

  9 Copy quote

• Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Goal, Problem, Nonsensical

  8 Copy quote

• The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Vanishing, Problem, Life Is

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.187, Routledge

  5 Copy quote

• We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Interpretation, Aspect

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1967). “Zettel”, Univ of California Press

  23 Copy quote

• What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Judging, World, Want

  7 Copy quote

• You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Pain, Language, Concepts

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

  14 Copy quote

• It is love that believes the resurrection.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Believe, Resurrection

  5 Copy quote

• What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Spiritual, Believe, Men

  15 Copy quote

• Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Thinking, Simple

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.183, Hackett Publishing

  8 Copy quote

• Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Knowledge, Ends, Acknowledgement

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

  42 Copy quote

• Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Holiday, Goes On

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.69, John Wiley & Sons

  8 Copy quote

• The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Differences, Simplicity, Design

  11 Copy quote

• Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lying, Philosophical, Knowledge

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (64e), 1980.

  11 Copy quote

• The world is made up of facts, not things.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World, Facts, Made

  12 Copy quote

• The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Difficulty, Knows

  "The Blue Book" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, (p. 45), 1965.

  10 Copy quote

• What makes a subject difficult to understand — if it is significant, important — is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  People, Understanding, Important

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.161, Hackett Publishing

  9 Copy quote

• And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Language, Imagine, Form

  "Philosophical Investigations".

  9 Copy quote

• Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Talking, Heaven, Attention

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

  7 Copy quote

• This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Jobs, Philosopher, Landlord

  8 Copy quote

• If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Madness, Intellect, Ifs

  "Public and Private Occasions".

  6 Copy quote

• Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Fighting, Expression

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

  15 Copy quote

Page 5 of 14

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin