#Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

_Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations_
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 Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Oct 18,2020

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The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and

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 The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and

Nov 01,2020

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You always hear people say that philosophy makes no progress and that the same philosophical problems which were

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 You always hear people say that philosophy makes no progress and that the same philosophical problems which were

Dec 02,2020

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Aim at being loved without being admired.

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 Aim at being loved without being admired.

Dec 26,2020

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Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now

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 Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now

Jan 10,2021

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Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

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 Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

Jan 26,2021

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Look at your room late in the evening when you can hardly distinguish between colours any longer—turn on the light and

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 Look at your room late in the evening when you can hardly distinguish between colours any longer—turn on the light and

Feb 01,2021

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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

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 Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

Feb 21,2021

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I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again ‘I know that that’s a tree’, pointing to a tree that

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 I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again ‘I know that that’s a tree’, pointing to a tree that

Mar 05,2021

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

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

Mar 20,2021

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this

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 I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this

May 23,2021

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

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

Nov 08,2021

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In my way of doing philosophy, its whole aim is to give an expression such a form that certain disquietudes disappear.

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 In my way of doing philosophy, its whole aim is to give an expression such a form that certain disquietudes disappear.

Nov 13,2021

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I suffer much from the human, or rather inhuman, beings with whom I live – in short it is all as usual!

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 I suffer much from the human, or rather inhuman, beings with whom I live – in short it is all as usual!

Nov 27,2021

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

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

Dec 15,2021

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

Jan 08,2022

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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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 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

Jan 18,2022

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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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 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.

Jan 28,2022

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

Feb 20,2022

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

Mar 01,2022

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

Mar 14,2022

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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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 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

Nov 05,2022

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

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

Nov 12,2022

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

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

Nov 15,2022

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