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 Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense. Ludwig Wittgenstein attention talking heaven Ambition is the death of thought. Ludwig Wittgenstein ambition The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate. Ludwig Wittgenstein fate grace happiness For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules. Ludwig Wittgenstein taught mean hands People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophical confusion people I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own. Ludwig Wittgenstein my-own certainty The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosopher consciousness philosophy Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue. Ludwig Wittgenstein glue squares thinking One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is. Ludwig Wittgenstein remarks truth The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it. Ludwig Wittgenstein simplicity design differences Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?! Ludwig Wittgenstein ugly butterfly beautiful Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it. Ludwig Wittgenstein understanding doe add A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophical problem way I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition. Ludwig Wittgenstein attitude philosophy thinking All propositions are of equal value. Ludwig Wittgenstein equal logic language Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand. Ludwig Wittgenstein house-of-cards leaving interesting If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of. Ludwig Wittgenstein has-beens able mind Elementary propositions consist of names. Ludwig Wittgenstein logic language names Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27. Ludwig Wittgenstein yield doe science The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know. Ludwig Wittgenstein difficulty knows philosophy
