Quote

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
Aphorist
Architectural Theoretician
Epistemologist
Logician
Mathematician
Philosopher
Philosopher Of Language
Professor
Teacher
Vienna
Austria
Thinks
Politician
Words
Language
Order
Peculiarity
Thinking
Occur
French
Wrote

More quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Image
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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
The world divides into facts.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
Ludwig Wittgenstein