Famous Quotes / Ludwig Wittgenstein
58 Quotations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 21. If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
- 22. In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinka ...
- 23. It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not c ...
- 24. It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there ...
- 25. It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ''Wisdom.'' And then I know ex ...
- 26. Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
- 27. Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
- 28. Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar o ...
- 29. Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
- 30. Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
- 31. Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep ag ...
- 32. Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep a ...
- 33. Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness ...
- 34. No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person ...
- 35. Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages ar ...
- 36. One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
- 37. Our civilization is characterized by the word `progress'. Progress is its form rather than making pr ...
- 38. Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
- 39. Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
- 40. Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dial ...