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Ludwig Wittgenstein Inspirational Quotes (183)

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It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.
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The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.
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There can never be surprises in logic.
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People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.
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Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.
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When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
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We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.
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Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.
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Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.
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If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.
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What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.
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A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.
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Aim at being loved without being admired.
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The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
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The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
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The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.
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For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.
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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
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I am my world.
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Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs
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A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.
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The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
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What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?
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All mathematics is tautology.
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