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No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is it's form rather than making progress being one of it's features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is it's use in the language (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.' (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered? (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful' (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I'll teach you differences'.... 'You'd be surprised' wouldn't be a bad motto either (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church.... Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
There is a truth in Schopenhauer's view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction.... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let's get a rough idea', for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood? (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)
Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones (Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes)