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Mean Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

14 Mean quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Wittgenstein’s compact set of fourteen thoughts on meanness invites you to question how we use words to wound or heal. Though brief, the collection captures his philosophical precision, making it a handy starter for anyone curious about the ethics of expression.

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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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Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.

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To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

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Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker…

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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…

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Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of…

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The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The…

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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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The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole…

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I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of…

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In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the…

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For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of…

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Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I…

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“The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the…

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What can be shown, cannot be said.

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

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White must be the lightest color in a picture.

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Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of…

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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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A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for…

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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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