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.“

“Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.”

“The world and life are one.”

“Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.”

“Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.”

“So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.”

“Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.”

“Does man think because he has found that thinking pays?
Does he bring his children up because he has found it pays?”

“If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.”

“There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man—but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.”

“Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.”

“It is not by recognizing the want of courage in someone else that you acquire courage yourself..”

“It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.”

“To obey a rule, to make a report, to give an order, to play a game of chess, are customs”

“The logical picture of the facts is the thought.”

“Words are deeds.”

“I never believed in God before.”

“You could attach prices to ideas. Some cost a lot some little. … And how do you pay for ideas? I believe: with courage.”