Ludwig Wittgenstein - God Quotes

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If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.

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Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Bach wrote on the title page of his Orgelbüchlein: "To the glory of the most high God, and that my neighbour may be benefited thereby." That is what I would have liked to say about my work.

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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.
And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.
To pray is to think about the meaning of life.

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"I never believed in God before." — that I understand. But not: "I never really believed in Him before."

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Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.

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Kierkegaard writes: If Christianity were so easy and cozy, why should God in his Scriptures have set Heaven and Earth in motion and threatened eternal punishments? — Question: But then in that case why is this Scriptures so unclear?

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The way you use the word "God" does not show whom you mean — but, rather, what you mean.

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To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life.
To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.
To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.

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You can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed.

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My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

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