Ludwig Wittgenstein: Frasi in inglese (pagina 5)

“I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me
whether what I have thought has already been
thought before me by another.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Tractatus logico-philosophicus

Origine: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Philosophical Investigations

Pt II, p. 162
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
Contesto: One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

“One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Journal entry (11 October 1914), p. 10e
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916

“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Tractatus logico-philosophicus

Origine: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Tell them I've had a wonderful life.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Last words, to his doctor's wife (28 April 1951)–as quoted in Ludwig Wittgenstein : A Memoir (1966) by Norman Malcolm, p. 100
1930s-1951

“This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Origine: Culture and Value (1980), p. 36e

“This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

“If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: "This is simply what I do."”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Philosophical Investigations

§ 217
Origine: Philosophical Investigations (1953)

“378. Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Della certezza

On Certainty (1969)

“The face is the soul of the body.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Philosophical Investigations

Origine: Philosophical Investigations

“Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Origine: Zettel

“The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Origine: Zettel

“The world is everything that is the case.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Original German: Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Variante: The world is all that is the case.
Contesto: The world is all that is the case. (1)

“I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Origine: Culture and Value

“The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Philosophical Investigations

§ 129
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
Contesto: The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something — because it is always before one's eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all. Unless that fact has at some time struck him. — And this means: we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful.