Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Austrian - Philosopher | April 26, 1889 - April 29, 1951

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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A confession has to be part of your new life.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

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What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

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The face is the soul of the body.

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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.

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The world is independent of my will.

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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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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.

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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

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