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Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes

Austrian Philosopher April 26, 1889 – April 29, 1951

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Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life."
To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is..."
Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit. Ludwig Wittgenstein
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "The eternal life is given to those who live in the present."
The eternal life is given to those who live in the present. Ludwig Wittgenstein
There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy. Ludwig Wittgenstein
But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting them on different shelves; nothing more being final about their positions than that they no longer lie side by side. The onlooker who doesn’t know the difficulty of the task might well think in such a case that nothing at all had been achieved. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "The world of the happy is quite different from that of the..."
The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy. Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
That it doesn’t strike us at all when we look around us, move about in space, feel our own bodies, etc. etc., shows how natural these things are to us. We do not notice that we see space perspectivally or that our visual field is in some sense blurred towards the edges. It doesn’t strike us and never can strike us because it is the way we perceive. We never give it a thought and it’s impossible we should, since there is nothing that contrasts with the form of our world. What I wanted to say... Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him. Ludwig Wittgenstein
The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e. g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "The human body is the best picture of the human soul."
The human body is the best picture of the human soul. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly..."
Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?! Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
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

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