Don't think, but look! (PI 66) Ludwig Wittgenstein More Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein More Quotes From Ludwig Wittgenstein I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not worth much anywhere, but here they are much more good-for-nothing and irresponsible than elsewhere. Ludwig Wittgenstein anywhere-but-herebasenessaverage Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. Ludwig Wittgenstein winningsleepsnow Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you. Ludwig Wittgenstein changememoriesway Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophicalmistakelooks One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes. Ludwig Wittgenstein familiarityeye If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it it is like investigating mercury vapour in order to comprehend the nature of vapours. Ludwig Wittgenstein lightsuicideorder Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones. Ludwig Wittgenstein constructsimportantteaching For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world. Ludwig Wittgenstein events-in-lifedeathworld You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded. Ludwig Wittgenstein common-senseattitudefunny How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes! Ludwig Wittgenstein hardfrontseye It is love that believes the resurrection. Ludwig Wittgenstein resurrectionbelieve A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting. Ludwig Wittgenstein wallcolordirty When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly . Ludwig Wittgenstein When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use. Ludwig Wittgenstein essencegameshome When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind. Ludwig Wittgenstein walking-stickstreebelieve We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. Ludwig Wittgenstein stillsproblemfeels A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide. Ludwig Wittgenstein importantoppositesphilosophy Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Ludwig Wittgenstein doctrinephilosophicalphilosophy A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture. Ludwig Wittgenstein logicformlanguage What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms? Ludwig Wittgenstein gainsdefinitionsshould
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