To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEINI act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
More Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
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In art, it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.
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Roughly speaking: objects are colorless.
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The limits of your language are the limits of your world.
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Logic takes care of itself, all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
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Only describe, don’t explain.
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
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If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
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There can never be surprises in logic.
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Genius is talent exercised with courage.
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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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Language disguises thought.
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It’s not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.
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When we can’t think for ourselves, we can always quote.
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The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
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The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
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At the core of all well-founded beliefs lies belief that is unfounded.
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Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
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Ethics and aesthetics are one.
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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgment.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
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Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world.
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When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
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