To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning. Ludwig Wittgenstein More Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein More Quotes From Ludwig Wittgenstein 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 propositionslogiclaw Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosopherproblemthinking Our greatest stupidities may be very wise. Ludwig Wittgenstein stupiditywisesilly The world divides into facts. Ludwig Wittgenstein dividesfactsworld The form is the possibility of the structure. Ludwig Wittgenstein possibilitystructureform A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in. Ludwig Wittgenstein mattermademay The world is made up of facts, not things. Ludwig Wittgenstein madefactsworld What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm? Ludwig Wittgenstein psychologyarmsfacts You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on. Ludwig Wittgenstein pegcertainmight "It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given." This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given. Ludwig Wittgenstein propsgivenimpossible We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place. Ludwig Wittgenstein descriptionexplanation This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business. Ludwig Wittgenstein landlordphilosopherjobs Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept. Ludwig Wittgenstein conceptsdark Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable. Ludwig Wittgenstein unthinkablelimitsphilosophy Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important. Ludwig Wittgenstein humormeanpeople White must be the lightest color in a picture. Ludwig Wittgenstein colorwhite One must always be prepared to learn something totally new. Ludwig Wittgenstein be-preparedprepared Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color. Ludwig Wittgenstein wallcoloreye The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead. Ludwig Wittgenstein selfbrainfeelings What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use. Ludwig Wittgenstein metaphysicaleverydayuse
