Ludwig Wittgenstein: Frasi in inglese (pagina 6)

“For a large class of cases — though not for all — in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Philosophical Investigations

§ 43, this has often been quoted as simply: The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
Philosophical Investigations (1953)

“What I give is the morphology of the use of an expression. I show that it has kinds of uses of which you had not dreamed. In philosophy one feels forced to look at a concept in a certain way. What I do is suggest, or even invent, other ways of looking at it. I suggest possibilities of which you had not previously thought. You thought that there was one possibility, or only two at most. But I made you think of others. Furthermore, I made you see that it was absurd to expect the concept to conform to those narrow possibilities. Thus your mental cramp is relieved, and you are free to look around the field of use of the expression and to describe the different kinds of uses of it.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Lectures of 1946 - 1947, as quoted in Ludwig Wittgenstein : A Memoir (1966) by Norman Malcolm, p. 43
1930s-1951

“Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

As quoted in "Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard on the ethico-religious" by Roe Fremstedal in Ideas in History Vol. 1 (2006) http://www.ideasinhistory.org/cms/index.php?page=wittgenstein-and-kierkegaard-on-the-ethico-religious
Attributed from posthumous publications

“You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Variante: You could attach prices to ideas. Some cost a lot some little. … And how do you pay for ideas? I believe: with courage.
Origine: Culture and Value (1980), p. 52e

“One might say: Genius is talent exercised with courage.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Man könnte sagen: „Genie ist Mut im Talent.”
Origine: Culture and Value (1980), p. 38e

“It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Journal entry (1 May 1915)
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916

“It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Conversation of 1934
Personal Recollections (1981)

“I believe it might interest a philosopher, one who can think himself, to read my notes. For even if I have hit the mark only rarely, he would recognize what targets I had been ceaselessly aiming at.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Della certezza

387.
On Certainty (1969)

“Frazer's account of the magical and religious views of mankind is unsatisfactory; it makes these views look like errors.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Origine: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 119

“I work quite diligently and wish that I were better and smarter. And these both are one and the same.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

In a letter to Paul Engelmann (1917) as quoted in The Idea of Justice (2010) by Amartya Sen, p. 31
1910s

“Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Philosophical Investigations

§ 112
Philosophical Investigations (1953)

“I can well understand why children love sand.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Although this quote has been attributed to Wittgenstein in Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson, there is no verifiable source from Wittgenstein that it can be traced back to.
Disputed