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.“

“Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a ‘poetic mood’. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one’s thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.”

“I believe that one of the things Christianity says is that sound doctrines are all useless. That you have to change your life.”

“Why in the world shouldn't they have regarded with awe and reverence that act by which the human race is perpetuated. Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.”

“In philosophy the race is to the one who can run slowest—the one who crosses the finish line last.”

“What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stood.”

“A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.”

“The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.”

“My difficulty is only an — enormous — difficulty of expression.”

“But ordinary language is all right.”

“Is it just I who cannot found a school, or can a philosopher never do so?”

“The ceremonial (hot or cold) as opposed to the haphazard (lukewarm) characterizes piety.”

“To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life.
To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.
To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.”

“When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything… And all rites are of this kind.”

“What has to be accepted, the given, is — so one could say — forms of life.”

“A confession has to be part of your new life.”

“The thought is the significant proposition.”

“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.”

“Though a state of affairs that would contravene the laws of physics can be represented by us spatially, one that would contravene the laws of geometry cannot.”

“If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained.”

“Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: “Let’s have done with it now,” and it’s having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.”

“A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.”

“Bach wrote on the title page of his Orgelbüchlein: "To the glory of the most high God, and that my neighbour may be benefited thereby." That is what I would have liked to say about my work.”

“The World and Life are one. Physiological life is of course not "Life". And neither is psychological life. Life is the world.
Ethics does not treat of the world. Ethics must be a condition of the world, like logic.
Ethics and Aesthetics are one.”

“One of the most difficult of the philosopher's tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches.”

“An entire mythology is stored within our language.”

“The aim of philosophy is to erect a wall at the point where language stops anyway.”

“The way you use the word "God" does not show whom you mean — but, rather, what you mean.”

“Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”

“But if you say: "How am I to know what he means, when I see nothing but the signs he gives?" then I say: "How is he to know what he means, when he has nothing but the signs either?"”