Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Mathematics is a method of logic.

We predicate of the thing what lies in the method of representing it. Impressed by the possibility of a comparison, we think we are perceiving a state of affairs of the highest generality.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world.

Original German: Wohl können wir einen Sachverhalt räumlich darstellen, welcher den Gesetzen der Physik, aber keinen, der den Gesetzen der Geometrie zuwiderliefe.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Öğretmek istediğim şey şu: Örtük bir saçmalıktan açık bir saçmalığa geçmek.

What can be described can happen too: and what the law of causality is meant to exclude cannot even be described.

A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.

O fato de uma proposição poder revelar-se falsa depende, em última instância, daquilo que eu considerar como predominantes dessa proposição.

In order to find the real artichoke, we divested it of its leaves.

The mechanism which we don't understand is not anything in our soul, but rather that of the life of this expression.

Mathematical logic has completely deformed the thinking of mathematicians and philosophers.

It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.

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Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht.
Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt.