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
“The face is the soul of the body.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Philosophical Investigations
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“The world is everything that is the case.”
Original German: Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Variante: The world is all that is the case.
Contexte: The world is all that is the case. (1)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Philosophical Investigations
§ 129
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
Contexte: The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something — because it is always before one's eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all. Unless that fact has at some time struck him. — And this means: we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful.
“It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Journal entry (12 October 1916), p. 84e
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”
Journal entry (14 May 1915), p. 48
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Philosophical Investigations
§ 43, this has often been quoted as simply: The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
Lectures of 1946 - 1947, as quoted in Ludwig Wittgenstein : A Memoir (1966) by Norman Malcolm, p. 43
1930s-1951
“Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.”
As quoted in "Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard on the ethico-religious" by Roe Fremstedal in Ideas in History Vol. 1 (2006) http://www.ideasinhistory.org/cms/index.php?page=wittgenstein-and-kierkegaard-on-the-ethico-religious
Attributed from posthumous publications
Variante: You could attach prices to ideas. Some cost a lot some little. … And how do you pay for ideas? I believe: with courage.
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 52e
“One might say: Genius is talent exercised with courage.”
Man könnte sagen: „Genie ist Mut im Talent.”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 38e
Journal entry (1 May 1915)
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916
Conversation of 1934
Personal Recollections (1981)
Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 119
In a letter to Paul Engelmann (1917) as quoted in The Idea of Justice (2010) by Amartya Sen, p. 31
1910s
“I can well understand why children love sand.”
Although this quote has been attributed to Wittgenstein in Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson, there is no verifiable source from Wittgenstein that it can be traced back to.
Disputed
As I myself read.
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 77e
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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De la certitude
drags out the language-game, or else does away with it.
On Certainty (1969)
Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 119
Original German: Der Satz ist eine Wahrheitsfunktion der Elementarsätze
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
“Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 53e
