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Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Art category:
A picture is a fact. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Colour category:
There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Colour category:
Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color.' (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Colour category:
Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Colour category:
Golden is a surface colour. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Colour category:
A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Communication category:
What can be shown, cannot be said. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Confession category:
A confession has to be part of your new life. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Contrasts category:
Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Danger category:
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Difficulty category:
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Earth category:
The world is the totality of facts, not of things. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Education category:
One must always be prepared to learn something totally new. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Expression category:
What can be shown, cannot be said. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Freedom category:
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Humanity category:
The human body is the best picture of the human soul. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Humour category:
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Imagination category:
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Immortality category:
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Impressionism category:
If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from the southwest. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Interpretation category:
We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Knowledge category:
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Language category:
The limits of my language are the limits of my world. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Language category:
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Language category:
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Life category:
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. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Light category:
There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Meaning category:
Don't look for the meanings; look for the use. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Mistakes category:
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Philosophy category:
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Philosophy category:
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. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Philosophy category:
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Play category:
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Portraiture category:
The face is the soul of the body. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Problems category:
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Problems category:
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Purpose category:
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Questions category:
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Religion category:
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Silence category:
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Suffering category:
You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Thinking category:
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Tones category:
White must be the lightest color in a picture. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Tones category:
'Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Truth category:
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Understanding category:
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Understanding category:
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Understanding category:
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Values category:
Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Vanity category:
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.' (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Wisdom category:
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Wonder category:
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Words category:
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Words category:
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Ludwig Wittgenstein - From the Words category:
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
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