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Famous Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
“You can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed.”
“If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
“Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.”
“If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.”
“A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.”
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
“A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.”
“The world is independent of my will.”
“What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.”
“Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”
“You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.”
“When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.”
“You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”
“One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'”
“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.”
“Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.”
“Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.”
“What can be shown, cannot be said.”
“A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.”
“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”
“One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.”