Ludwig Wittgenstein: Frasi in inglese

Ludwig Wittgenstein era filosofo e logico austriaco. Frasi in inglese.
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“We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Attributed from posthumous publications

“I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Della certezza

Origine: On Certainty

“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Tractatus logico-philosophicus

Origine: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“253. At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Della certezza

Origine: On Certainty (1969)

“For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed.

The riddle does not exist.

If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Tractatus logico-philosophicus

Origine: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“The world of the happy is quite different from the world of the unhappy.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

6.43
Die Welt des Glücklichen ist eine andere als die des Unglücklichen
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)

“Ethics and aesthetics are one.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Tractatus logico-philosophicus

Origine: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult "What is that?"”

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It happened like this: the grown-up had drawn pictures for the child several times and said "this is a man," "this is a house," etc. And then the child makes some marks too and asks: what's this then? p. 17e

Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Ludwig Wittgenstein / Quotes / Culture and Value (1980)
1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993)
Origine: Philosophical Occasions: 1912-1951

“Language disguises thought.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Tractatus logico-philosophicus

Origine: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Origine: Culture and Value

“A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Philosophical Investigations

Origine: Philosophical Investigations

“115. If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Della certezza

Origine: On Certainty (1969)

“Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Journal entry (13 October 1914), also in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (§ 5.47)
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916