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.“

“Aim at being loved without being admired.”

“The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.”

“If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?”

“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.”

“Ambition is the death of thought.”

“One might say: art shows us the miracles of nature. It is based on the concept of the miracles of nature.”

“A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in…”

“Don’t say: “They must have something in common, or they would not be called ‘games’” but look and see whether there is anything common to all. For if you look at them, you won’t see something that is common to all, but similarities, affinities, and a whole series of them at that. To repeat: don’t think, but look!”

“You won't — I really believe — get too much out of reading it. Because you won't understand it; the content will seem strange to you. In reality, it isn't strange to you, for the point is ethical. I once wanted to give a few words in the foreword which now actually are not in it, which, however, I'll write to you now because they might be a key for you: I wanted to write that my work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.”

“If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.”

“"It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given." This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.”

“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”

“I squander untold effort making an arrangement of my thoughts that may have no value whatever.”

“People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them”

“If life becomes hard to bear we think of improvements. But the most important and effective improvement, in our own attitude, hardly occurs to us, and we can decide on this only with the utmost difficulty.”

“"Fare well!"
"A whole world of pain is contained in these words." How can it be contained in them? — It is bound up in them. The words are like an acorn from which an oak tree can grow.”

“Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.”

“If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.”

“Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.”

“So in the end when one is doing philosophy one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.”

“The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.”

“Philosophy hasn’t made any progress?—If someone scratches where it itches, do we have to see progress? Is it not genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching?”

“Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved… it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.”

“It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.”

“For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules — it hasn't been taught us by means of strict rules, either.”

“It seems to me as good as certain that we cannot get the upper hand against England. The English — the best race in the world — cannot lose! We, however, can lose and shall lose, if not this year then next year. The thought that our race is going to be beaten depresses me terribly, because I am completely German.”

“A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.”

“What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?”

“For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.”