Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Ludwig Wittgenstein (61)

Birth:	26th April, 1889
Death:	29th April, 1951
Nationality:	Austrian, British
Profession:	Philosopher

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• A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

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• I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

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• The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

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• He who lives in the present lives in eternity.

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  Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

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• The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

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• The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

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• Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.

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• You learned the concept ‘pain’ when you learned language.

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• You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

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• Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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• When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

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• What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

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• What can be shown, cannot be said.

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• Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

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• There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

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• The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

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• The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

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• The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

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• The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

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