Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes about Knowledge

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Knowledge, Ends, Acknowledgement

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Knowledge, Learning, Views

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.50, University of Chicago Press

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Lying, Philosophical, Knowledge

"Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (64e), 1980.

Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Knowledge, Mind, Stones

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”