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
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 31e
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 85e
Original German: Die Welt und das Leben sind Eins.
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Conversation of 1930, in Personal Recollections (1981) by Rush Rhees, Ch. 6
Variante: Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 9 : Philosophy, p. 175
“So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.”
§ 470
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
Journal entry (1 November 1914)
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916
Pt II, p. 217
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
“It is not by recognizing the want of courage in someone else that you acquire courage yourself..”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 44e
“It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 75e
“To obey a rule, to make a report, to give an order, to play a game of chess, are customs”
uses, institutions
§ 199
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
“The logical picture of the facts is the thought.”
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Original German: Das logische Bild der Tatsachen ist der Gedanke.
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Worte sind Taten.
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 50e
“I never believed in God before.”
that I understand. But not: "I never really believed in Him before."
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 53e
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 60e