"Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and……" — Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language."
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211 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein has 211 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…
- 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…
- Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such…
- 'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by…
- What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise…
- 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.