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 am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.”

“Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.”

“Animals come when their names are called. Just like human beings.”

“The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather — not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i. e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
It will therefore only be in language that the limit can be set, and what lies on the other side of the limit will simply be nonsense.”

“310. A pupil and a teacher. The pupil will not let anything be explained to him, for he continually interrupts with doubts, for instance as to the existence of things, the meaning for words, etc. The teacher says "Stop interrupting me and do as I tell you. So far your doubts don't make sense at all."”

“Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.”

“Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.”

“We must plow through the whole of language.”

“The meaning of a question is the method of answering it: then what is the meaning of 'Do two men really mean the same by the word "white"?' Tell me how you are searching, and I will tell you what you are searching for.”

“The Sabbath is not simply a time to rest, to recuperate. We should look at our work from the outside, not just from within.”

“205. If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false.”

“A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.”

“One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.”

“If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.”

“I must plunge into the water of doubt again and again.”

“You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”

“You always hear people say that philosophy makes no progress and that the same philosophical problems which were already preoccupying the Greeks are still troubling us today. But people who say that do not understand the reason why it has to be so. The reason is that our language has remained the same and always introduces us to the same questions…. I read: "philosophers are no nearer to the meaning of 'Reality' than Plato got,…". What a strange situation. How extraordinary that Plato could have got even as far as he did! Or that we could not get any further! Was it because Plato was so extremely clever?”

“The idea that in order to get clear about the meaning of a general term one had to find the common element in all its applications has shackled philosophical investigation; for it has not only led to no result, but also made the philosopher dismiss as irrelevant the concrete cases, which alone could have helped him understand the usage of the general term.”

“612. At the end of reasons comes persuasion.”

“The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.”

“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.”

“Scepticism is not irrefutable, but obviously nonsensical, when it tries to raise doubts where no questions can be asked.
For doubt can exist only where a question exists, a question only where an answer exists, and an answer only where something can be said.”

“What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.”

“When I obey a rule, I do not choose.
I obey the rule blindly.”

“If someone is merely ahead of his time, it will catch up to him one day.”

“What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.”

“A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.”

“Philosophers often behave like little children who scribble some marks on a piece of paper at random and then ask the grown-up "What's that?" — It happened like this: the grown-up had drawn pictures for the child several times and said "this is a man," "this is a house," etc. And then the child makes some marks too and asks: what's this then?”

“What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts.”