Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes about Logic

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My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Intelligent, Wish, Logic

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Brian McGuinness (2012). “Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-1951”, p.61, John Wiley & Sons

If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Use, Logic, Tricks

"Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 24e), 1980.

Elementary propositions consist of names.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Names, Logic, Language

Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.89, Routledge

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

Law, Logic, Propositions

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1961). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus: The German Text of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung”, p.116, Linkgua digital

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Logic, Language, Disguise

Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.8, Clube de Autores

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Silence, Logic, Speak

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Proposition 7 (1922)

A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Logic, Language, Form

Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.11, Psychology Press

There can never be surprises in logic.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Math, Logic, Surprise

Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.28, Clube de Autores

All propositions are of equal value.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Logic, Language, Equal

Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.105, Courier Corporation

It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical, Giving, Logic

Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.76, Psychology Press