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Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes


It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

Ludwig Wittgenstein
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

Ludwig Wittgenstein