Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes - page 8

Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
The Sabbath is not simply a time to rest, to recuperate. We should look at our work from the outside, not just from within.
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205. If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false.
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I must plunge into the water of doubt again and again.
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The idea that in order to get clear about the meaning of a general term one had to find the common element in all its applications has shackled philosophical investigation; for it has not only led to no result, but also made the philosopher dismiss as irrelevant the concrete cases, which alone could have helped him understand the usage of the general term.
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The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.
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If someone is merely ahead of his time, it will catch up to him one day.
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One might say: art shows us the miracles of nature. It is based on the concept of the miracles of nature.
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Don't say: "They must have something in common, or they would not be called ‘games'” but look and see whether there is anything common to all. For if you look at them, you won't see something that is common to all, but similarities, affinities, and a whole series of them at that. To repeat: don't think, but look!
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The problems are dissolved in the actual sense of the word - like a lump of sugar in water.
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I squander untold effort making an arrangement of my thoughts that may have no value whatever. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
If life becomes hard to bear we think of improvements. But the most important and effective improvement, in our own attitude, hardly occurs to us, and we can decide on this only with the utmost difficulty.
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"Fare well!" "A whole world of pain is contained in these words." How can it be contained in them? - It is bound up in them. The words are like an acorn from which an oak tree can grow.
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So in the end when one is doing philosophy one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.
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It seems to me as good as certain that we cannot get the upper hand against England. The English - the best race in the world - cannot lose! We, however, can lose and shall lose, if not this year then next year. The thought that our race is going to be beaten depresses me terribly, because I am completely German.
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I believe that one of the things Christianity says is that sound doctrines are all useless. That you have to change your life.
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In philosophy the race is to the one who can run slowest-the one who crosses the finish line last.
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What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stood.
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The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
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My difficulty is only an - enormous - difficulty of expression.
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But ordinary language is all right. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Is it just I who cannot found a school, or can a philosopher never do so?
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The ceremonial (hot or cold) as opposed to the haphazard (lukewarm) characterizes piety.
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Bach wrote on the title page of his Orgelbüchlein: "To the glory of the most high God, and that my neighbour may be benefited thereby." That is what I would have liked to say about my work.
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The World and Life are one. Physiological life is of course not "Life". And neither is psychological life. Life is the world. Ethics does not treat of the world. Ethics must be a condition of the world, like logic. Ethics and Aesthetics are one.
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