Ludwig Wittgenstein citáty

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„Nebojte sa rozprávať o nezmysloch! No musíte venovať pozornosť svojim nezmyslom.“

„Často sa vysloví pripomienka a až potom sa zistí, aká je pravdivá.“

„Čím sa platí za myšlienky? Myslím, že odvahou.“

„Humor nie je nálada, ale svetový názor.“

„Je to zvláštna náhoda, že všetci ľudia, ktorým bola otvorená lebka, mali mozog.“

„Spoveď musí byť časťou nového života.“

„Problémy života nemôžeme riešiť na povrchu, ale len v hĺbke. V dimenziách povrchu sú neriešiteľné. (pravdepodobne v roku 1948)“

„Naše najväčšie hlúposti môžu byť veľmi múdre.“

„To čo sa dá vôbec povedať, sa dá povedať jasne a o čom človek nevie hovoriť, o tom treba mlčať.“

„Ak sa nechceš vzdať klamstva, nemôžeš hovoriť pravdu.“

“I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.”

“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”

“When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote”

“What can be shown, cannot be said.”

“253. At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.”

“For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed.

The riddle does not exist.

If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.”

“The world of the happy is quite different from the world of the unhappy.”

“Ethics and aesthetics are one.”

“An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.”

“Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult "What is that?"”

“Language disguises thought.”

“When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.”

“Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.”

“Don't think, but look! (PI 66)”

“A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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 sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.”

“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."”

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