Ludwig Wittgenstein:
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Ludwig Wittgenstein citations célèbres
Carnets 1914-1916
“Quand bien même un lion saurait parler, nous ne pourrions le comprendre.”
Recherches philosophiques
Ludwig Wittgenstein Citations
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Grammaire philosophique, traduit de l’allemand par Marie-Anne Lescourret, Gallimard, Paris, 1980, p. 301.
Conférence sur l’éthique
“[…] il n'y a pas de propositions éthiques, il n'y a que des actes éthiques.”
Lettres, rencontres, souvenirs
“Je mène une vie vraiment très heureuse! Sauf aux moments où elle est diablement malheureuse.”
Lettres, rencontres, souvenirs
Recherches philosophiques
Conférence sur l’éthique
Carnets 1914-1916
Lettres, rencontres, souvenirs
Carnets 1914-1916
Carnets 1914-1916
Remarques sur les couleurs/Bemerkungen über die Farben, 1, 68
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Citations en anglais
5.5571
Original German: Wenn ich die Elementarsätze nicht a priori angeben kann, dann muss es zu offenbarem Unsinn führen, sie angeben zu wollen.
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Contexte: 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. (5.62)
“What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.”
Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 9 : Philosophy (chapters 86–93 of the so called Big Typescript), p. 161
Corresponding to TS 213, Kapitel 86
Contexte: What makes a subject difficult to understand — if it is significant, important — is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will. [Nicht eine Schwierigkeit des Verstandes, sondern des Willens ist zu überwinden. ]
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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De la certitude
On Certainty (1969)
Contexte: 105. All testing, all confirmation and disconfirmation of a hypothesis takes place already within a system. And this system is not a more or less arbitrary and doubtful point of departure for all our arguments; no it belongs to the essence of what we call an argument. The system is not so much the point of departure, as the element in which our arguments have their life.
“1. If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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De la certitude
On Certainty (1969)
Conversation of 1947 or 1948
Personal Recollections (1981)
“One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.”
Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 123
Contexte: A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.
“The world is the totality of facts, not things.”
1.1
Original German: Die Welt ist die Gesamtheit der Tatsachen, nicht der Dinge
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 9 : Philosophy, p. 185
“A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death.”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 50e
Contexte: A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death. Behaving honourably in a crisis doesn't mean being able to act the part of a hero well, as in the theatre, it means being able to look death itself in the eye.
For an actor may play lots of different roles, but at the end of it all he himself, the human being, is the one who has to die.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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De la certitude
On Certainty (1969)
Contexte: 105. All testing, all confirmation and disconfirmation of a hypothesis takes place already within a system. And this system is not a more or less arbitrary and doubtful point of departure for all our arguments; no it belongs to the essence of what we call an argument. The system is not so much the point of departure, as the element in which our arguments have their life.
“Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples.”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 5e
Contexte: Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
“The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Philosophical Investigations
§ 454
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
Contexte: "Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? — "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that." — That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.
Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 131
Contexte: Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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De la certitude
On Certainty (1969)
Contexte: 144. The child learns to believe a host of things. I. e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system of what is believed, and in that system some things stand unshakeably fast and some are more or less liable to shift. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.
“225. What I hold fast to is not one proposition but a nest of propositions.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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De la certitude
On Certainty (1969)
“To pray is to think about the meaning of life.”
Journal entry (11 June 1916), p. 72e and 73e
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916
Contexte: What do I know about God and the purpose of life?
I know that this world exists.
That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field.
That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning.
This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it.
That life is the world.
That my will penetrates the world.
That my will is good or evil.
Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.
The meaning of life, i. e. the meaning of the world, we can call God.
And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.
To pray is to think about the meaning of life.
“Translated: Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
7
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.
Also: About what one can not speak, one must remain silent. (7)
Source: 1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
The microcosm.
5.63
Original German: Ich bin meine welt (Der Mikrokosmos.)
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916
Variante: Man is the microcosm:
I am my world.
“If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
Variante: If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 50e
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Philosophical Investigations
Die Philosophie ist ein Kampf gegen die Verhexung unsres Verstandes durch die Mittel unserer Sprache.
§ 109
Source: Philosophical Investigations (1953)
