Ludwig Wittgenstein - Truth Quotes

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This remark provides the key to the problem, how much truth there is in solipsism. For what the solipsist means is quite correct; only it cannot be said, but makes itself manifest. The world is my world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language (of that language which alone I understand) mean the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Propositions are truth-functions of elementary propositions. (An elementary proposition is a truth-function of itself.)

Ludwig Wittgenstein
The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.

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You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.)

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When one is frightened of the truth... then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Ludwig Wittgenstein