Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it. Ludwig Wittgenstein More Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein More Quotes From Ludwig Wittgenstein All mathematics is tautology. Ludwig Wittgenstein tautology mathematics Everything that can be said, can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein semantics design said I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church.... Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink. Ludwig Wittgenstein church mean thinking That the world is, is the mystical. Ludwig Wittgenstein mystical world Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'. ... 'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either. Ludwig Wittgenstein kings book thinking Genius is talent exercised with courage. Ludwig Wittgenstein talent genius The world is independent of my will. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophical independent world The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it. Ludwig Wittgenstein accompany events wish A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably. Ludwig Wittgenstein repeats lays language What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view. Ludwig Wittgenstein copernicus views discovery Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries. Ludwig Wittgenstein tasks giving philosophy A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them. Ludwig Wittgenstein language order thinking For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered. Ludwig Wittgenstein answers doe philosophy For a truly religious man nothing is tragic. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophical religious men It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.' Ludwig Wittgenstein vanity wisdom culture One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief. Ludwig Wittgenstein mistrust self-esteem belief The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy. Ludwig Wittgenstein different unhappy world The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn't absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are. Ludwig Wittgenstein mean believe fall The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all Ludwig Wittgenstein eye real men One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice. Ludwig Wittgenstein prejudice learning stupid
