Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein
We found 44 quotes.
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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Austrian - English philosopher 1889-1951
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A confession has to be part of your new life.
Austrian - English philosopher 1889-1951
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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.
Austrian - English philosopher 1889-1951
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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
Austrian - English philosopher 1889-1951
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A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.
Austrian - English philosopher 1889-1951
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A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
Austrian - English philosopher 1889-1951
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Austrian - English philosopher 1889-1951
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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.
Austrian - English philosopher 1889-1951
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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.
Austrian - English philosopher 1889-1951
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For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
Austrian - English philosopher 1889-1951
