Facts Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

12 Facts quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Wittgenstein’s philosophical style is famously terse. These twelve statements cut to the core of his observations about language and reality, perfect for a quick dive into his thinking.

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The world is the totality of facts, not of things

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The world divides into facts.

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The world is made up of facts, not things.

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A logical picture of facts is a thought.

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For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in…

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The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.

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To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.

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What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?

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The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact…

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To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to…

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Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity,…

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We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.

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What can be shown, cannot be said.

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White must be the lightest color in a picture.

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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…

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

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Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important?…

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There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.

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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…

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I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."

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Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of…

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“It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed. Ethics are transcendental. (Ethics and æsthetics are one.)”

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