Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes - page 4

Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.
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I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
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Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
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Animals come when their names are called. Just like human beings.
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Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.
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Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.
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We must plow through the whole of language.
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One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.
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612. At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
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What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly.
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The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
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Aim at being loved without being admired.
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The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.
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If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
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A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in...
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If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.
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"It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given." This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.
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Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.
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Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.
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What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?
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Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.
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The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
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