You can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed. Ludwig Wittgenstein More Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein More Quotes From Ludwig Wittgenstein I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings. Ludwig Wittgenstein foundation building views A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophical example thinking A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. Ludwig Wittgenstein truth-is contradiction impossible How small a thought it takes to fill a life. Ludwig Wittgenstein 6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit. Ludwig Wittgenstein duration events men Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything. Ludwig Wittgenstein should say-anything The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. Ludwig Wittgenstein generations mean needs If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do. Ludwig Wittgenstein spades justification exhausted Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent. Ludwig Wittgenstein talent genius forget Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. Ludwig Wittgenstein theory philosophy reality If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. Ludwig Wittgenstein verbs believe firsts Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. Ludwig Wittgenstein tautology contradiction philosophical The sense of the world must lie outside the world... What we cannot speak about we must remain silent about... What can be described can happen too, and what is excluded by the laws of causality cannot be described. Ludwig Wittgenstein law lying world Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard. Ludwig Wittgenstein talent genius character Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that? Ludwig Wittgenstein pieces paper children It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played. Ludwig Wittgenstein mechanic music people Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein Ludwig Wittgenstein said history What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein application failing shows Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time?" If from one day to the next someone promises: "Tomorrow I will give up smoking", does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different? Ludwig Wittgenstein giving-up writing science Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it. Ludwig Wittgenstein use spring water
