Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

• What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

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• What can be shown, cannot be said.

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• Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

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• There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

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• The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

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• The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

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• The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

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

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• The face is the soul of the body.

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• The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

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• Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

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• Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

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• Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

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• Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

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• Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

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• Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

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• Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

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• One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

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• One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word ‘I.’

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• Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn’t find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein (77)

Birth:	26th April, 1889
Death:	29th April, 1951
Nationality:	Austrian, British
Profession:	Philosopher

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