Ludwig Wittgenstein: Doing

Ludwig Wittgenstein was Austrian-British philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“So in the end when one is doing philosophy one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein book Philosophical Investigations

§ 261
Philosophical Investigations (1953)

“The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein book Philosophical Investigations

§ 133
Philosophical Investigations (1953)

“Philosophy hasn’t made any progress?—If someone scratches where it itches, do we have to see progress? Is it not genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching?”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 98e

“Is it just I who cannot found a school, or can a philosopher never do so?”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 69e

“When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything… And all rites are of this kind.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 131

“A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

As quoted in Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information (2008) edited by Alois Pichler and Herbert Hrachovec, p. 140
Attributed from posthumous publications

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein book Philosophical Investigations

§ 470
Philosophical Investigations (1953)

“It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 75e

“You could attach prices to ideas. Some cost a lot some little. … And how do you pay for ideas? I believe: with courage.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 60e