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Ludwig Wittgenstein

1889-1951 ,  Austrian philosopher
Ludwig WittgensteinAustrian-born philosopher who spent much of his life in England. From 1929 to 1947, he taught at the University of Cambridge. He published just one slim philosophical book (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1921). His voluminous manuscripts were published posthumously under the title Philosophical Investigations in 1953.

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To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life.

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

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

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.

The aim of philosophy is to erect a wall at the point where language stops anyway.

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

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

Language disguises thought.

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

Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.

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.

Ambition is the death of thought.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

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

The world is the totality of facts, not things.

To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.

What is confusing for us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult “What is that?”

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

Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?

If I cannot say a priori what elementary propositions there are, then the attempt to do so must lead to obvious nonsense.

The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.

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

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

Philosophizing is: rejecting false arguments.

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.

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

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

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

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.

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

Aim at being loved without being admired.

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man —but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

Words are deeds.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

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

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.


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