Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes about Understanding

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Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Science, Understanding, Mathematics

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

What makes a subject difficult to understand if it is significant, important is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

People, Understanding, Important

Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.161, Hackett Publishing

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Understanding, Doe, Add

"Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, p. 7-8, 1970.

Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Spiritual, Practice, Understanding

Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.131, Hackett Publishing