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Famous Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
“What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.”
“Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.”
“And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.”
“The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.”
“If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.”
“Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.”
“A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.”
“At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.”
“This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.”
“I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.”
“Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.”
“There can never be surprises in logic.”
“Ethics and aesthetics are one.”