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From Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein
- What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?
- One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the…
- To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
- Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but…
- Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As…
- It is obvious that an imagined # world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form -…
- Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common…
- If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would…
- ...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my…
- Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing…
- The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
- Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the…
- It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
- The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
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