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The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and fami... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN He was of the opinion... th...
GEORG HENRIK VON WRIGHT
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and fami... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley ...
RICHARD HELL
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am n... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was sta... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep a... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactl... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physic... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinka... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages ar... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now thi... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over th... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since lo... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so ... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not c... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. -- The one t... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there ... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my though... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells ... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar o... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making prog... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off an... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dial... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I ... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any ph... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
The world is the totality of facts, not of things. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
A confession has to be part of your new life. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not i... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it ... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
The limits of my language means the limits of my world. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
A right-hand glove could be put on the left hand if it could be turned round in four-dimensional spa... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriage... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep ag... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
The human body is the best picture of the human soul. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
The right method of philosophy would be this. To say nothing except what can be said, i.e. the propo... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, p... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word meaning it can be de... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be a... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view ove... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it w... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
What can be shown, cannot be said. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree'... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still ... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
I am my world. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Some people's taste is to an educated taste as is the visual impression received by a purblind eye t... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already been...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language ... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the f... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Language disguises thought. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horribl... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background ... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Belief in the causal nexus is superstition. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what probl... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your no... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are 
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. 
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particula... 
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at le... 
Debate is the death of conversation. 
Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death. 
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the ... 
The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality,... 
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest p... 
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest p... 
Only the suppressed word is dangerous 