Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes - page 10

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)
My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer. View quote
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Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?! View quote
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You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself. View quote
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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. View quote
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A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about. View quote
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Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. View quote
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I cannot get from the nature of the proposition to the individual logical operations!!! View quote
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The world is my world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language (of that language which alone I understand) mean the limits of my world. View quote
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What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will. View quote
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All testing, all confirmation and disconfirmation of a hypothesis takes place already within a system. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can. View quote
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A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death. View quote
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The system is not so much the point of departure, as the element in which our arguments have their life. View quote
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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. View quote
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Philosophizing is: rejecting false arguments. The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness. View quote
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My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. View quote
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The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. View quote
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The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it. View quote
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Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. View quote
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What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
370. But more correctly: The fact that I use the word "hand" and all the other words in my sentence without a second thought, indeed that I should stand before the abyss if I wanted so much as to try doubting their meanings - shows that absence of doubt belongs to the essence of the language-game, that the question "How do I know..." View quote
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I never believed in God before. View quote
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A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can. View quote
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Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves. View quote
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