If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. Ludwig Wittgenstein More Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein More Quotes From Ludwig Wittgenstein So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay. Ludwig Wittgenstein pay sometimes thinking This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one. Ludwig Wittgenstein procedures psychological law Golden is a surface colour. Ludwig Wittgenstein surface golden colour Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. Ludwig Wittgenstein humor way world We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry. Ludwig Wittgenstein law math facts A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence. Ludwig Wittgenstein height valleys stupidity Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit. Ludwig Wittgenstein language body spirit I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again. Ludwig Wittgenstein glasses philosophy firsts [M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content. Ludwig Wittgenstein existence purpose needs That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof. Ludwig Wittgenstein silent said In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value. Ludwig Wittgenstein would-be doe world The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought. Ludwig Wittgenstein clarification logical philosophy Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify. Ludwig Wittgenstein glorify architecture My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright. Ludwig Wittgenstein ladders philosophical world Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy. Ludwig Wittgenstein black rubies darkness Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree. Ludwig Wittgenstein growing-up inspiration tree Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression. Ludwig Wittgenstein writing mean thinking The world is the totality of facts, not of things Ludwig Wittgenstein totality facts world Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it. Ludwig Wittgenstein world My attitude towards him is an attitude towards a soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul. . . . Ludwig Wittgenstein opinion soul attitude
