Ludwig Wittgenstein - Man Quotes

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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

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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 it.

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What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

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Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

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There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man—but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

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Philosophers often behave like little children who scribble some marks on a piece of paper at random and then ask the grown-up "What's that?" — It happened like this: the grown-up had drawn pictures for the child several times and said "this is a man," "this is a house," etc. And then the child makes some marks too and asks: what's this then?

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The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something — because it is always before one's eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all. Unless that fact has at some time struck him. — And this means: we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful.

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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.

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It is true: Man is the microcosm:
I am my world.

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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.

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Does man think because he has found that thinking pays?
Does he bring his children up because he has found it pays?

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Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

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