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.“

“Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!”

“The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.”

“The world is everything that is the case.”

“I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.”

“The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.”

“It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.”

“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”

“It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?”

“My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.”

“For a large class of cases — though not for all — in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”

“What I give is the morphology of the use of an expression. I show that it has kinds of uses of which you had not dreamed. In philosophy one feels forced to look at a concept in a certain way. What I do is suggest, or even invent, other ways of looking at it. I suggest possibilities of which you had not previously thought. You thought that there was one possibility, or only two at most. But I made you think of others. Furthermore, I made you see that it was absurd to expect the concept to conform to those narrow possibilities. Thus your mental cramp is relieved, and you are free to look around the field of use of the expression and to describe the different kinds of uses of it.”

“Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.”

“You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.”

“One might say: Genius is talent exercised with courage.”

“It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.”

“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.”

“I believe it might interest a philosopher, one who can think himself, to read my notes. For even if I have hit the mark only rarely, he would recognize what targets I had been ceaselessly aiming at.”

“Frazer's account of the magical and religious views of mankind is unsatisfactory; it makes these views look like errors.”

“I work quite diligently and wish that I were better and smarter. And these both are one and the same.”

“Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.”

“I can well understand why children love sand.”

“Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words.
You say: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.”

“I would really like to slow down the speed of reading with continual punctuation marks. For I would like to be read slowly.”

“370. But more correctly: The fact that I use the word "hand" and all the other words in my sentence without a second thought, indeed that I should stand before the abyss if I wanted so much as to try doubting their meanings — shows that absence of doubt belongs to the essence of the language-game, that the question "How do I know…"”

“206. If someone asked us 'but is that true?' we might say "yes" to him; and if he demanded grounds we might say "I can't give you any grounds, but if you learn more you too will think the same."”

“To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.”

“Propositions are truth-functions of elementary propositions. (An elementary proposition is a truth-function of itself.) (5)”

“Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?”

“Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.”