Ludwig Wittgenstein: Frasi in inglese (pagina 11)

“Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: “Let’s have done with it now,” and it’s having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Origine: Culture and Value (1980), p. 86e

“A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

As quoted in Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information (2008) edited by Alois Pichler and Herbert Hrachovec, p. 140
Attributed from posthumous publications

“Bach wrote on the title page of his Orgelbüchlein: "To the glory of the most high God, and that my neighbour may be benefited thereby." That is what I would have liked to say about my work.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein in conversation with Maurice O'Connor Drury, cited in Rush Rhees (eds.) Recollections of Wittgenstein: Hermine Wittgenstein--Fania Pascal--F.R. Leavis--John King--M. O'C. Drury, Oxford University Press, 1984; p. xvi, and p. 168.
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“The World and Life are one. Physiological life is of course not "Life". And neither is psychological life. Life is the world.
Ethics does not treat of the world. Ethics must be a condition of the world, like logic.
Ethics and Aesthetics are one.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Journal entry (24 July 1916), p. 77e
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916

“One of the most difficult of the philosopher's tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Origine: 1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916, p. 61

“An entire mythology is stored within our language.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Origine: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 133

“The aim of philosophy is to erect a wall at the point where language stops anyway.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Origine: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 9 : Philosophy, p. 187

“The way you use the word "God" does not show whom you mean — but, rather, what you mean.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Origine: Culture and Value (1980), p. 50e

“Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Philosophical Investigations

§ 6
Philosophical Investigations (1953)

“But if you say: "How am I to know what he means, when I see nothing but the signs he gives?" then I say: "How is he to know what he means, when he has nothing but the signs either?"”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Philosophical Investigations

§ 504
Philosophical Investigations (1953)

“Kierkegaard writes: If Christianity were so easy and cozy, why should God in his Scriptures have set Heaven and Earth in motion and threatened eternal punishments? — Question: But then in that case why is this Scriptures so unclear?”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Origine: Culture and Value (1980), p. 31e

“Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Origine: Culture and Value (1980), p. 85e

“The world and life are one.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Original German: Die Welt und das Leben sind Eins.
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)

“Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Conversation of 1930, in Personal Recollections (1981) by Rush Rhees, Ch. 6
Variante: 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.
Origine: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 9 : Philosophy, p. 175