#Ludwig Wittgenstein

The rules of logical syntax must go without saying, once we know how each individual sign signifies.

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If objects are given, then at the same time we are given all objects. If elementary propositions are given, then at the

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I do believe that it was the right thing for me to come here [to Norway]… I can’t imagine that I could have worked anywhere as

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My thoughts are tired. I am not seeing things freshly, but rather in a pedestrian, lifeless way. It is as if a flame had

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The walking-stick that looks pretty so long as one carries it, but bends as soon as you rest your weight upon it, is

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Perhaps you regard this thinking about myself as a waste of time – but how can I be a logician before I’m a human being! Far

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Ethics does not treat of the world. Ethics must be a condition of the world, like logic.

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Let’s not shirk digging. You can’t think decently if you don’t want to hurt yourself. I know all about it because I am

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To ask whether a formal concept exists is nonsensical. For no proposition can be the answer to such a question.

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Asking whether and how a proposition can be verified is only a special form of the question “How do you mean?” The answer is

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We can also think of the whole process of using words … as one of those games by means of which children learn their

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My unhappiness is so complex, that it is difficult to describe. But probably the main thing is still loneliness.

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My mind is tired & stale… I think I could discuss philosophy if I had someone here to discuss with, but alone I can’

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Words can be hard to utter: those, for example, with which one renounces something, or confesses a weakness. (Words are

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In love I have too little faith and too little courage… But I am easily hurt and afraid of being hurt, and to protect oneself

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It is in language that an expectation and its fulfilment make contact.

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My difficulty is only an — enormous — difficulty of expression.

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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

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Suppose someone said: ‘What do you believe, Wittgenstein? Are you a sceptic? Do you know whether you will survive death?’

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In order to understand why it’s impossible, or almost impossible, for certain people to understand each other, one has to

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I am nervous when writing and all my thoughts are short of breath. And I feel constantly that I cannot completely justify

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Naming is not yet a move in a language-game – any more than putting a piece in its place on the board is a move in chess.

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If intuition is an inner voice – how do I know *how* I am to follow it? And how do I know that it doesn’t mislead me? For if

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I am my world. (The microcosm.) There is no such thing as the subject that thinks or entertains ideas. … The subject does

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