Quote

Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.

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
Lasts
Last
Understand
Nothing
Important
Fictional
Formation
Concepts
Teach

More quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Image
We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.
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
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 were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
The world divides into facts.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
The form is the possibility of the structure.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Image
This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
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
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 prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.
Ludwig Wittgenstein