Ludwig Wittgenstein citáty

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18 citátů o sebeklamu, moudrosti a smyslu života

„Naše největší hlouposti mohou být velmi moudré.“

„Hranice mého jazyka jsou hranice mého světa“

„O čem není možno mluvit, o tom se musí mlčet.“

„Nemohu se dostat z povahy výroku k jednotlivým logickým operacím !!!“

„Že mi - nebo všem - to tak připadá, z toho nevyplývá, že tomu tak je.“

„Nic není tak těžké, jako neklamat sám sebe.“

„Ctižádost je smrt myšlení.“

„Nevím, proč jsme tady, ale jsem si jistý, že to není proto, abychom se bavili.“

„Skutečně píši perem, neboť o tom, co píše ruka, hlava často ani neví.“

„Pro skutečně zbožného člověka nic není tragické. Wittgenstein In: R. Rhees, Personal recollections, kap. 6.“

„Člověk se musí probudit k údivu – a národy možná také. Věda je způsob, jak je zase poslat spát.“

„6.371 Celý moderní světonázor je založen na iluzi, že tzv. přírodní zákony jsou vysvětlení přírodních jevů.“

„Cesta k úspěchu je v zásadě jednoduchá, to jen my si ji ztěžujeme. Nejdůležitější patníky přehlížíme, protože se nám zdají příliš obyčejné.“

„Myslitel se velmi podobá kreslíři, který chce zachytit všechny souvislosti.“

„Zázrak musí být jakoby posvátným gestem.“

„Člověk se musí probudit, aby mohl být zvědavý - a tak možná i národy.“

„Tajemstvím není to, jak svět je, ale jaký je.“

„Kdo ví příliš mnoho, tomu připadá těžké nelhat.“

“I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.”

“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”

“When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote”

“What can be shown, cannot be said.”

“253. At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.”

“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.”

“The world of the happy is quite different from the world of the unhappy.”

“Ethics and aesthetics are one.”

“An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.”

“Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult "What is that?"”

“Language disguises thought.”

“When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.”

“Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.”

“Don't think, but look! (PI 66)”

“A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.”

“You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself”

“115. If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.”

“Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.”

“The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.”

“I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me
whether what I have thought has already been
thought before me by another.”

“If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.”

“One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.”

“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.”

“Tell them I've had a wonderful life.”

“This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.”

“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.”

“This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.”

“If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: "This is simply what I do."”

“378. Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.”