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I think I summed up my attitu...

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

I am sitting with a philosoph...

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

Man is the microcosm: I am my...

Man is the microcosm: I am my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

For life in the present there...

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

The Christian religion is onl...

The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole planet cannot be in greater anguish than a single soul. The Christian faith - as I view it - is the refuge in this ultimate anguish. To whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

What Copernicus really achiev...

What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

Most of the propositions and ...

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

If you tried to doubt everyth...

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

The truth can be spoken only ...

The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

To believe in a God means to ...

To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

Ask yourself whether our lang...

Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus were incorporated in it; for these are, so to speak, suburbs of our language. (And how many houses or streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

What makes a subject difficul...

What makes a subject difficult to understand ? if it is significant, important ? is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

A color which would be 'dirty...

A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

Don't for heaven's sake, be a...

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

Think of words as instruments...

Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

[M]an is fulfilling the purpo...

[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

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Philosophy, as we use the wor...

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

Make sure that your religion ...

Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

Nothing is more important tha...

Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

How hard I find it to see wha...

How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

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