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Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

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Austrian Philosopher April 26, 1889 – April 29, 1951

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What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world. The meaning of life, i. e. the meaning of the world, we can call God.... Ludwig Wittgenstein
The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis [i. e., under the aspect of eternity]; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics. 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
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
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
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
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important. Ludwig Wittgenstein
The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit -not a part of the world.[...]If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "The world is everything that is the case...Wherof we cannot..."
The world is everything that is the case...Wherof we cannot speak reasonably, we must pass over in silence. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "hell is not other people, hell is yourself"I am my world"
hell is not other people, hell is yourself"I am my world Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have..."
Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "The world is independent of my will."
The world is independent of my will. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "The limits of your language are the limits of your world."
The limits of your language are the limits of your world. Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
We cannot therefore say in logic: This and this there is in the world, that there is not. For that would apparently presuppose that we exclude certain possibilities, and this cannot be the case since otherwise logic must get outside the limits of the world: that is, if it could consider these limits from the other side also. Ludwig Wittgenstein

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