Belief Lies Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Ludwig Wittgenstein has 215 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
• If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
• Genius is talent exercised with courage.
• The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
• A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.
• One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation…
• Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is…
• 'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but…
• What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?
• Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
• There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
• An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

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