Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes - page 3

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
467. I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again "I know that that's a tree", pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell them: "This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy." View quote
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The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. View quote
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If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings. View quote
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What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life. View quote
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What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about. View quote
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To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth. View quote
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Ambition is the death of thought. View quote
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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. View quote
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We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming. View quote
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You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i. e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in. View quote
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What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within. View quote
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Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy. View quote
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I am my world. View quote
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Ethics and aesthetics are one. View quote
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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?" View quote
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Language disguises thought. View quote
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115. If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty. View quote
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Tell them I've had a wonderful life. View quote
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The world is everything that is the case. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all. View quote
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My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense. View quote
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Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint. View quote
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You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage. View quote
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