The 25 best sentences of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein (Vienna, 1889 - 1951) was an Austrian mathematician, linguist, philosopher and writer. The work of Wittgenstein is considered one of the most prolific and significant in the world of philosophy, mainly in the field of linguistics and communication.
One of his main essays, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, collects some of the theories that most influenced the members of the Circle of Vienna .
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Famous quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein by Bertrand Russell at Trinity College, Cambridge University. His family environment favored his intellectual and cultural development, to the point of being considered by most scholars as one of the thinkers of reference in the twentieth century.
In this article we will know the best phrases of Ludwig Wittgenstein , as well as some excerpts from his books that can be considered famous quotes from the pioneer of analytical philosophy.
1. If Christianity is the truth, all philosophy about it is false.
About the western religion and its discrepancy about it.
2. The way you use the word "God" does not show who you think about, but what you think.
An example of how we use language in a self-referential way.
3. Wisdom has no passions. Kierkegaard calls faith, on the contrary, a passion.
On beliefs, recalling the vision of another famous philosopher.
4. What do you care? Take care to be your best! As you are, you can not even understand what the truth may be here.
A phrase of Wittgenstein that brings us closer to self-discovery.
5. Religion says: Do this! Think like that! But it can not substantiate it and when it tries it disgusts; For each of the reasons given, there is a strong contrary reason. More convincing would be to say "Think so, as strange as it seems to you". Or: "Would not you like to do this?"
In this case, he talks about the fragility of religious dogmas.
6. Tell them that my life was wonderful.
Shortly before passing away, Wittgenstein pronounced this phrase to his doctor.
7. Philosophy is a struggle against the bewitchment of our intelligence through the use of language.
One of those philosophical quotes that can leave you thinking for hours.
8. Revolutionary will be one who can revolutionize himself.
It does not work with wanting to change the environment. The main thing is to change ourselves.
9. We feel that even when all the possible scientific questions have been answered, our vital problems have not yet been touched in the least. Of course then there is no question left; and this is precisely the answer.
An extract of his main work, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
10. What can not be talked about must be silenced.
Simple and plain.
11. The ineffable (that which seems mysterious to me and which I dare not express) perhaps provides the background on which what I could express acquires meaning.
We always talk from prudence, but the non-expressable sneaks into the confines of what we express between the lines.
12. That all wisdom is cold and that with it it is as difficult to order life as to forge cold iron.
Pure knowledge is not guarantor of happiness.
13. Wisdom is gray. On the other hand, life and religion are multicolored.
In the line of the previous famous quote.
14. The Christian religion is only for those who need infinite help, that is, for those who feel an infinite anguish.
Another of his sentences in which he questions the need to believe in a religion.
15. We feel that even when all the possible scientific questions have been answered, our vital problems have not yet been touched in the least. Of course then there is no question left; and this is precisely the answer.
Anteposing the science to the vital expression, in this famous paradox.
16. We do not realize the prodigious diversity of everyday language games because the exterior cladding of our language makes everything look the same.
On the complexity of communicative forms.
17. The meaning of the world must reside outside of it and, in addition, outside of meaningful language.
Another philosophical phrase of Wittgenstein in which he exposes his thought about language and existence.
18. A proposition can only say what a thing is, but not what it is.
Reflection still studied in the faculties of communication and in the field of linguistics.
19. Architecture exalts something. Therefore, where there is nothing to exalt, there can be no architecture.
Curious vision about the function of architecture.
20. The limits of my language are the limits of my world.
Perhaps the most famous phrase of Wittgenstein, in which a great part of his theoretical postulates is synthesized.
21. Death is not an event in life. Death is not lived. If for eternity it is understood not an infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternally lives who lives in the present.
Great reflection about the limits of existence.
22. Do not play with the depths of another!
We must be careful when discovering the feelings of others.
23. Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress". Progress is your way, not one of your qualities, to progress. It is typically constructive. Its activity is to build an increasingly complicated product. And even clarity is at the service of this end; It is not an end in itself. For me, on the contrary, clarity, transparency, is an end in itself.
Theorizing about the development of civilization.
24. The correct method of philosophy would be properly this: to say nothing more than what can be said, that is, propositions of natural science, that is, something that has nothing to do with philosophy, and then, how many times Someone would like to say something metaphysical, to prove to him that in his propositions he had not given meaning to certain signs. This method would be unsatisfactory, but it would be the only strictly correct one.
In short, we need to interpret the observable (natural) events in order to give meaning to everything that surrounds us.
25. Our words only express facts, in the same way that a cup of tea can only contain the volume of water proper to a cup of tea no matter how much a liter is poured into it.
A great metaphor that exemplifies his vision about the linguistic medium.
