Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental. Ludwig Wittgenstein More Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein More Quotes From Ludwig Wittgenstein It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophical sun mean To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique. Ludwig Wittgenstein technique language mean The face is the soul of the body. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophical body soul Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic. Ludwig Wittgenstein limits decision world You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself Ludwig Wittgenstein willing hurt thinking Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life. Ludwig Wittgenstein language games facts No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me. Ludwig Wittgenstein hats way thinking Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color. Ludwig Wittgenstein color ordinary mean Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness. Ludwig Wittgenstein produce different way Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. Ludwig Wittgenstein eternal-life duration religion At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded. Ludwig Wittgenstein deceit inspirational lying Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw. Ludwig Wittgenstein sock transcendental cutting There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosopher philosophical different Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life? Ludwig Wittgenstein use giving life A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom. Ludwig Wittgenstein levels teaching teacher Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only. Ludwig Wittgenstein clarity progress civilization How things stand, is God. God is, how things stand. Ludwig Wittgenstein god One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense. Ludwig Wittgenstein common-sense philosophical temptation There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap. Ludwig Wittgenstein reap remarks philosophical 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-here baseness average
