Language disguises thought. Ludwig Wittgenstein More Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein More Quotes From Ludwig Wittgenstein The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system of what is believed, and in that system some things stand unshakeably fast and some are more or less liable to shift. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it. Ludwig Wittgenstein believe lying children All I know is what I have words for. Ludwig Wittgenstein vocabulary-words vocabulary knows An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it. Ludwig Wittgenstein support religious air In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought). Ludwig Wittgenstein should-have order thinking If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I. Ludwig Wittgenstein centre ifs world We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation. Ludwig Wittgenstein interpretation aspect Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophical sleep science The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophical common mean When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line and that its direction changes constantly. Ludwig Wittgenstein mind moving thinking Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them. Ludwig Wittgenstein fashion eye war The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact that we do, does tell us something about the world. Ludwig Wittgenstein doe facts world Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics. Ludwig Wittgenstein math life order 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 very moment. Ludwig Wittgenstein horse moments life To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning. Ludwig Wittgenstein believe-in-god believe Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me. Ludwig Wittgenstein mathematics understanding science To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule. Ludwig Wittgenstein following thinking Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus were incorporated in it; for these are, so to speak, suburbs of our language. (And how many houses or streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses. Ludwig Wittgenstein symbolism squares cities Only describe, don't explain. Ludwig Wittgenstein If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. Ludwig Wittgenstein understanding-him lions language All mathematics is tautology. Ludwig Wittgenstein tautology mathematics
