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Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
«Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.»
«At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
core, founded, The Core, unfounded, well-founded
«Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| Keywords:
an event, duration, eternal life, event, life eternal, temporal, timelessness
«One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| Keywords:
mislead, misleading, misleads, representational, techniques, The Technique, the Techniques
«A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.»
«The human body is the best picture of the human soul.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| About:
Body,
Soul
| Keywords:
human body, human soul, picture, the human body
«The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| About:
Simplicity
| Keywords:
aspects, familiarity, Hidden Things, simplicity
«No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently -- and tolerantly -- to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| Keywords:
approach, confronted, hence, injured, offended, patiently, spaniel, tolerantly, wounded
«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.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
adjustment, adjustments, combination, combination lock, dials, in place, lock
«It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.»