Ludwig Wittgenstein: Trending quotes (page 8)

“I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.”

“The world is everything that is the case.”

“The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.”

“Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!”

“The face is the soul of the body.”

“378. Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.”

“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."”

“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.”

“I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.”

“This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.”

“Tell them I've had a wonderful life.”

“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.”

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

“If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.”

“I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me
whether what I have thought has already been
thought before me by another.”

“The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.”

“Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.”

“115. If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.”

“You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself”