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Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes


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

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

The face is the soul of the body.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

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

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

The world is independent of my will.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

What can be shown, cannot be said.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

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