Ludwig Wittgenstein: Frasi in inglese

Ludwig Wittgenstein era filosofo e logico austriaco. Frasi in inglese.
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“If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.”

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Origine: Culture and Value (1980), p. 53e

“"It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given." This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.”

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Notes of 1919, as quoted in Ludwig Wittgenstein : The Duty of Genius (1990) by Ray Monk
1910s

“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Philosophical Investigations

Pt II, p. 178
Philosophical Investigations (1953)

“I squander untold effort making an arrangement of my thoughts that may have no value whatever.”

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Origine: Culture and Value (1980), p. 33e

“People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them”

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that does not occur to them.
Origine: Culture and Value (1980), p. 36e

“If life becomes hard to bear we think of improvements. But the most important and effective improvement, in our own attitude, hardly occurs to us, and we can decide on this only with the utmost difficulty.”

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Origine: Culture and Value (1980), p. 60e

“"Fare well!"
"A whole world of pain is contained in these words." How can it be contained in them? — It is bound up in them. The words are like an acorn from which an oak tree can grow.”

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Origine: Culture and Value (1980), p. 52e

“Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.”

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Origine: Culture and Value (1980), p. 53e

“If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.”

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

“Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.”

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Origine: Culture and Value (1980), p. 35e

“So in the end when one is doing philosophy one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Philosophical Investigations

§ 261
Philosophical Investigations (1953)

“The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein libro Philosophical Investigations

§ 133
Philosophical Investigations (1953)

“Philosophy hasn’t made any progress?—If someone scratches where it itches, do we have to see progress? Is it not genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching?”

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Origine: Culture and Value (1980), p. 98e

“Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved… it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.”

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Origine: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 123

“It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.”

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Origine: Personal Recollections (1981), p. 96

“For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules — it hasn't been taught us by means of strict rules, either.”

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Origine: 1930s-1951, The Blue Book (c. 1931–1935; published 1965), p. 25

“It seems to me as good as certain that we cannot get the upper hand against England. The English — the best race in the world — cannot lose! We, however, can lose and shall lose, if not this year then next year. The thought that our race is going to be beaten depresses me terribly, because I am completely German.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Writing about the eventual outcome of World War I, in which he was a volunteer in the Austro-Hungarian army (25 October 1914), as quoted in The First World War (2004) by Martin Gilbert, p. 104
1910s

“A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.”

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Origine: Culture and Value (1980), p. 43e

“What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?”

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Origine: 1930s-1951, The Blue Book (c. 1931–1935; published 1965), p. 26

“For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.”

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Conversation of 1930
Personal Recollections (1981)