Source: Last writings on the philosophy of psychology
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Famous Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
“The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.”
“When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
Source: On Certainty
“Tell them I've had a wonderful life.”
Source: Wittgenstein's Tractatus
“You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself”
Source: Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
“The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.”
Source: Zettel
“The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.”
“One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.”
Source: Last writings on the philosophy of psychology
“Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English
“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?”
“Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.”
Source: Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
“An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.”
Source: A companion to Wittgenstein's
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.”
Source: The Tractatus According to Its Own Form
“Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
Source: On Certainty
“A picture is a model of reality.”
Source: Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951
“The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.”
Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951
“Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.”