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Philosophical Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 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 to attack common…
- 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.
- With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
- There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.
- If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
- The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
- The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
- Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
- A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
- Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
- A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
- Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
- A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
- The world is independent of my will.
- What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
- It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
- A confession has to be part of your new life.
- The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
- When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
- You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
- The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
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