The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law. Ludwig Wittgenstein More Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein More Quotes From Ludwig Wittgenstein This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time. Ludwig Wittgenstein take-your-time philosopher should I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another. Ludwig Wittgenstein indifferent source giving Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic Ludwig Wittgenstein principles men two In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophical philosophy mean Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical. Ludwig Wittgenstein nonsensical philosophical found Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophical mirrors reality The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophical truth world When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there. Ludwig Wittgenstein chaos home feels The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world. Ludwig Wittgenstein self doe world The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape. Ludwig Wittgenstein shapes clouds trying Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness. Ludwig Wittgenstein pseudo brilliant use Every explanation is after all an hypothesis. Ludwig Wittgenstein hypothesis explanation If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud. Ludwig Wittgenstein fraud judging reason Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway? Ludwig Wittgenstein games play people Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own. Ludwig Wittgenstein teach lasts important There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophy country book The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaphysical subject, the boundary (not a part) of the world. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophical soul self Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain Ludwig Wittgenstein views philosophy lying 'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of pain'-in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism. Ludwig Wittgenstein pain memories moving What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophical bottles philosophy
