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Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes

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“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“The world is the totality of facts, not of things.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“The world and life are one.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Ethics and æsthetics are one.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“The world of the happy is quite another than that of the unhappy.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“The truth of tautology is certain, of propositions possible, of contradiction impossible.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“The subject does not belong to the world but it is a limit of the world.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“The logical picture of the facts is the thought.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“What can be shown cannot be said.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“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.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“In a certain sense we cannot make mistakes in logic.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Definitions are rules for the translation of one language into another.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“The world is independent of my will.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“The picture is a model of reality.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“The solution of logical problems must be simple for they set the standard of simplicity.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“We cannot think anything unlogical, for otherwise we should have to think unlogically.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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