Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

• Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

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• Not every religion has to have St. Augustine’s attitude to s*x. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn’t prevent it being a religious ceremony.

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• Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

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• Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

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• Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

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• Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

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• Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

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• Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

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• Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

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• Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

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• It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed “Wisdom.” And then I know exactly what is going to follow: “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

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• It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

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• 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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• It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

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• If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

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• If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

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• I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

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• Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

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• For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

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• Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein (77)

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

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