Truth Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

15 Truth quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Wittgenstein’s precise, analytical style makes his thoughts on truth feel like logical puzzles. Fifteen excerpts invite you to question how language shapes reality and to see truth not as a static fact but as a process of clarification.

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“2.22 What a picture represents it represents independently of its truth or falsity, by means of its pictorial form.”

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The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

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“The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.”

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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

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

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You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

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“That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence”

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If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

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The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in…

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To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error…

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“It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic. The truth…

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There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and…

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The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have…

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“303. "I can only believe that someone else is in pain, but I know it if I am."—Yes: one can make the…

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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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White must be the lightest color in a picture.

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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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