Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
“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.”
“The face is the soul of the body.”
“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.”
“If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.”
“So in the end, when one is doing philosophy, one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.”
“Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about.”
“the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”
“a nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.”
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Book Keywords:
knowledge, isolation, information, solipsism, language, problems, philosophy, picture
