73 ordspråk av Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
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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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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
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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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If a lion could talk, we would not hear him.
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If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
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If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.
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If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done
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If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
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If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
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It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.
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