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1. "...whereof we cannot speak, we must remain silent." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
2. "No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
3. "The atmosphere surrounding this problem is terrible. Dense clouds of language lie about the crucial point. It is almost impossible to get through to it." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
4. "Es ist ein seltsamer Zufall, dass alle die Menschen, deren Schädel man geöffnet hat, ein Gehirn hatten." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
5. "You sometimes see in a wind a piece of paper blowing about anyhow. Suppose the piece of paper could make the decision: ‘Now I want to go this way.' I say: ‘Queer, this paper always decides where it is to go, and all the time it is the wind that blows it. I know it is the wind that blows it.' That same force which moves it also in a different way moves its decisions." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
6. "This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
7. "Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all exists. This astonishment cannot be expressed in the form of a question, and there is also no answer whatsoever. Anything we might say is a priori bound to be nonsense. Nevertheless we do run up against the limits of language. Kierkegaard too saw that there is this running up against something, and he referred to it in a fairly similar way (as running up against paradox). This running up against the limits of language is ethics." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
8. "It's not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
9. "We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
10. "A logical picture of facts is a thought." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
11. "When I came home I expected a surprise and there was no surprise for me, so of course, I was surprised." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
12. "your all out to sea" ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
13. "Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
14. "Remember that we sometimes demand explanations for the sake not of their content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural one; the explanation a kind of sham corbel that supports nothing." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
15. "This is connected with the conception of naming as a process that is, so to speak, occult. Naming seems to be a _strange_ connection of a word with an object. -- And such a strange connection really obtains, particularly when a philosopher tries to fathom _the_ relation between name and what is named by staring at an object in front of him and repeating a name, or even the word "this", innumerable time. For philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday. And _then_ we may indeed imagine naming to be some remarkable mental act, as it were the baptism of an object. And we can also say the word "this" _to_ the object, as it were _address_ the object as "this" -- a strange use of this word, which perhaps occurs only when philosophizing." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
16. "The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
17. "I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
18. "Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
19. "A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
20. "When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote" ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
21. "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
22. "If a lion could talk, we could not understand him." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
23. "Our greatest stupidities may be very wise." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
24. "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
25. "A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
26. "Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
27. "In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
28. "In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
29. "The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
30. "Think, for example, of the words which you perhaps utter in this space of time. They are no longer part of this language. And in different surroundings the institution of money doesn't exist either." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
31. "IfI wanted to eat an apple, and someone punched me in the stomach, taking away my appetite, then it was this punch that I originally wanted" ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
32. "Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
33. "That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
34. "The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
35. "De filosoof behandelt een vraag zoals men dat met een ziekte doet." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
36. "A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
37. "Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
38. "If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
39. "Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
40. "For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
41. "Music conveys to us itself!" ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
42. "Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
43. "The limits of your language are the limits of your world." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
44. "Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
45. "I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
46. "I am my world." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
47. "Only describe, don't explain." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
48. "Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
49. "If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it's this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
50. "What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
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