Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

I conceive the proposition — like Frege and Russell — as a function of the expressions contained in it.

It is not by recognizing the want of courage in someone else that you acquire courage yourself..

The subject does not belong to the world, but it is a limit of the world. (5.632)

"Facts which are not compounded of other facts are what Mr Wittgenstein calls Sachverhalle, whereas a fact which may consist of two or more facts is called a Tatsache: thus, for example, "Socrates is wise " is a Sachverhalt, as well as a Tatsache, whereas "Socrates is wise and Plato is his pupil" is a Tatsache but not a Sachverhalt.
He compares"

Se trata de lo que podríamos llamar la vivencia de sentirse absolutamente seguro. Me refiero a aquel estado anímico en el que nos sentimos inclinados a decir: Estoy seguro, pase lo que pase, nada
puede dañarme.

Original German: Die Welt und das Leben sind Eins.

A certeza é por assim dizer um tom de voz em que alguém declara como são as coisas, mas não se infere desse tom que tem razão.

Thence we pass successively to Theory of Knowledge, Principles of Physics, Ethics, and finally the Mystical (das Mystische).

It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

The problems are dissolved in the actual sense of the word — like a lump of sugar in water.

Indeed how might it be if things revealed their colors only when (in our terms) no light fell on them - if, for example, the sky were black? Could we not then say, only by black light do they appear to us in their full colors?

People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them - that does not occur to them.

Tem de admitir-se que é verdade que saber qualquer coisa não implica pensar nisso - mas alguém que saiba de alguma coisa não tem de ser capaz de duvidar dela? E duvidar significa pensar.