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Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Total quotes: 23
“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tagged: Knowledge, Intelligence, Mind
“The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein Between Analytic Philosophy and Apophaticism
Tagged: Happy, Sad, Different world
“Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Personal Recollections
Tagged: Philosophy, Metaphor
“At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty
Tagged: Belief, Dogma, Uncertainty
“It is quite impossible for a proposition to state that it itself is true”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tagged: Proposition, Debate, argument
“There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tagged: Words, Meaning, Msytery
“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
Tagged: Knowledge, Education, Ignorance
“What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Blue Book
Tagged: definition, Meaning, Terms, Undefined
“We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tagged: Asleep, Life, Dream, dream state, Awareness
“To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Occasions: 1912-1951
Tagged: Philosophy, convincing, Truth, Path to truth, Finding Errors
“Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks, 1914-1916
Tagged: Problems, Perspective, solutions
“The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
Tagged: Problems, solutions, Knowledge, information
“Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks, 1914-1916
Tagged: Logic, Let It Be
“It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks, 1914-1916
Tagged: skills, Philosophy, Questions, Focus
“Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tagged: Philosophy, Clarification, Thoughts, activity
“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tagged: Death, Life, Living, Time, Eternal Life, present
“The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Blue Book
Tagged: Philosophy, Difficulty, Knowledge, Facts
“One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks, 1914-1916
Tagged: Remark, Judgement
“Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks, 1914-1916
Tagged: Conscience, God, Religion, Belief, Opinion
“The world and life are one.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tagged: World, Life, Connection, Philosophy
“To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life.
To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.
To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks, 1914-1916
Tagged: Belief, Religion, Meaning, Facts, Life, God, Dogma
“My difficulty is only an — enormous — difficulty of expression.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks, 1914-1916
Tagged: Difficulty, Expressing Yourself, difficulty of expression
“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks, 1914-1916
Tagged: Language, Organism, Human Being, Complicated
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