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Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

«At the end of reasons comes persuasion»
«Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein | About: Philosophy | Keywords: battle, bewitchment
«What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent»
«Philosophy is not a theory but an activity»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein | About: Philosophy | Keywords: activity
«It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.»
«A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring»
«A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.»
«Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.»
«Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein | About: Logic
«We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.»

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