Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes - Page 11

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it.

Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.

Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.

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.

Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain

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.

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.

Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.

A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors.

Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

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.

Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.

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.

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.