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"50 Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 26 April 1889. Died: 29 April 1951 | Philosopher |

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.

Always Clear Even Flight
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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Language Limits Means World
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Against Battle Intelligence Language
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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Enjoy Here Know Order
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If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Did Done Ever Get
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Does Door Him Imprisoned
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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.

Achieve Adjustment Combination Does
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Best Best Picture Body Human
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Cannot Must Silent Speak
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A confession has to be part of your new life.
Confession Life New New Life
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A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

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

Between Everything Found Grammar
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Consisting Could Entirely Good
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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.

Chief Concern Him Himself
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Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
Activity A Philosophy Theory
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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.

Bring Discovery Doing Enables
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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Barren Cleverness Come Down
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

Complicated Language Less Organism
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Finds Hard Knows Lie
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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.

Am Bad Good Good Nature
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Care Does How Itself
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The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
Falsehood Logic Prior Truth
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You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
Bending Breaks Get Instead
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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Man Nothing Religious Religious Man
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Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's 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 doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

Attitude Being Celebrated Ceremony
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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.

Again Awaken Him Man
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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
Reap Remarks Sow That
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Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
Greatest May Our Very
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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Any Comparison Consciousness Exhibition
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A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

Discussion Fresh Ground Like
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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Imagination Keyboard Like Note
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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.

Dangerous Die Laurels Off
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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.'

Across Chapter Come Culture
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Belongs Death Duration Eternal
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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Acknowledgement Based End In The End
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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.

Characteristic Fewer How Improved
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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

How Later Makes Often
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The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
Facts Things Totality World
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One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

Language Misleading Most Our
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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.

Anything Correct Deeper Does
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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

Body Doctrine Logic Transcendental
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The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

Behavior Common Interpret Language
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What can be shown, cannot be said.
Cannot Said Shown What
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What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Aim Fly Out Philosophy
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When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Frightened Never Then Truth
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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.

Hypothesis Know Means Rise
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A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

About Form Know Philosophical
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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

Contradictions Nothing Say Show
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Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

After Cannot Certain Itself
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You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

Concept Language Learned Pain
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Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes & Sayings