Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein's insights on:

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgment.
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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgment.
The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
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The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
Aim at being loved without being admired.
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Aim at being loved without being admired.
If the place I wanted to arrive at could only be reached by a ladder, I would give up trying to arrive at it. For the place I really have to reach is where I must already be. What is reachable by a ladder doesn't interest me.
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If the place I wanted to arrive at could only be reached by a ladder, I would give up trying to arrive at it. For the place I really have to reach is where I must already be. What is reachable by a ladder doesn't interest me.
One interesting thing is the idea that people have of a kind of science of Aesthetics.
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One interesting thing is the idea that people have of a kind of science of Aesthetics.
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.
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If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.
With my full philosophical rucksack, I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
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With my full philosophical rucksack, I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
What is your aim in philosophy? - To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
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What is your aim in philosophy? - To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
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