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I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Attitude, Philosophy, Thinking

If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Attitude, Thinking, Important
"Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 53e), 1980.

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Religious, Sex, Attitude
"Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism". Book by Richard Thomas Eldridge. Chapter: "Conversations with Wittgenstein", p. 130, 1997.

My attitude towards him is an attitude towards a soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul. . . .

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Attitude, Soul, Opinion
Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Funny, Attitude, Common Sense
"Personal Recollections" by Rush Rhees, Ch. 6, 1981.

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