Ludwig Wittgenstein
Quotations
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“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ‘Wisdom.’ And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ‘Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.’” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn’t find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Not every religion has to have St. Augustine’s attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn’t prevent it being a religious ceremony.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“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
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“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Not every religion has to have St. Augustine’s attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn’t prevent it being a religious ceremony.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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