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Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosopher)

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
If there were a verb meaning to believe falsely, it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein believe
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein world
What is your aim in philosophy?---To shew the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophy
If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein people
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity
— Ludwig Wittgenstein simplicity
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring
— Ludwig Wittgenstein art
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity
— Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophy
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.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophy
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophy
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it
— Ludwig Wittgenstein self
If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein time
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein soul
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein work
A philosophical problem has the form: I dont know my way about.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophical
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein truth
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein age
You learned the concept pain when you learned language.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein pain
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Not every religion has to have St. Augustines attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesnt prevent it being a religious ceremony.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein religion
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein self
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didnt find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein war
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word I.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein language
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein true
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein wise
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein anger
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein lie
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein language
The face is the soul of the body.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein soul
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein world
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein truth
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein world
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein imagination
What can be shown, cannot be said.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophy
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
A picture is a fact.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein fact
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein war
Dont 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.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein art
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein man
I dont know why we are here, but Im pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein joy
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horses good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein life

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