7 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein about reality
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The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.
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What finds its reflection in language, language cannot represent. What expresses itself in language, we cannot express by means of language.
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6.4321 The facts all contribute only to setting the problem, not to its solution. 6.44 It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. 6.45 To view the world sub specie aeterni is to view it as a whole - a limited whole. Feeling the world as a limited whole - it is this that is mystical.
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The world is my world: this is shown by the fact that the limits of language stand for the limits of my world…I am my world.
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A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.
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Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
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I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.
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