Ludwig Wittgenstein Short Quotes

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Nothing, in logic, is accidental.

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A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.

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Philosophizing is: rejecting false arguments.

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The world is the totality of facts, not things.

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The logical picture of the facts is the thought.

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

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Mathematics is a MOTLEY of techniques and proofs.

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

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If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

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An entire mythology is stored within our language.

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The disastrous invasion of mathematics by logic....

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The mathematician is an inventor, not a discoverer.

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What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.

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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.

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I must plunge into the water of doubt again and again.

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One might say: Genius is talent exercised with courage.

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What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

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It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.

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So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.

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You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

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

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

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The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

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Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

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What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts.

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An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.

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For is what is linguistic not an experience? (Words are deeds.)

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

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