It’s not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEINKnowledge is in the end based on acknowledgment.
More Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
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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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The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
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I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
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To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.
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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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Anything that can be said can be said clearly.
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There are no subjects in the world. A subject is a limitation of the world.
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A confession has to be part of your new life.
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When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
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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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There can never be surprises in logic.
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Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.
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A nothing will serve just as well as something about which nothing could be said.
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Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
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The face is the soul of the body.
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That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence.
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I am my world.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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Nothing in the visual field allows you to infer that it is seen by an eye.
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
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Genius is talent exercised with courage.
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In art, it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.
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The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
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An entire mythology is stored within our language.
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A logical picture of facts is a thought.
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