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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.

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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

My day passes between logic, ...

My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

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The fact that we can describe...

The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact that we do, does tell us something about the world.

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Language disguises the though...

Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.

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In order to be able to set a ...

In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

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The truly apocalyptic view of...

The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn't absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are.

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The solution to the problem o...

The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

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How hard I find it to see wha...

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

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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.

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Make sure that your religion ...

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

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Nothing is more important tha...

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

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[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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It is truly strange how long ...

It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago I realised that I absolutely love lightly toasted bread. Simultaneously, I also realised that I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost sixty years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.

Ludwig Wittgenstein 307 quotes

Philosophy aims at the logica...

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

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The limits of my language mea...

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

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It is one of the chief skills...

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

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