Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
Quotes from Culture and Value — Ludwig Wittgenstein
1889–1951 Austria
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Culture and Value (1980)
Culture and Value (1980)
The way you use the word "God" does not show whom you mean — but, rather, what you mean.
Culture and Value (1980)
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Culture and Value (1980)
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
Culture and Value (1980)
In philosophy the race is to the one who can run slowest—the one who crosses the finish line last.
Culture and Value (1980)
A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death.
Culture and Value (1980)
One might say: Genius is talent exercised with courage.
Culture and Value (1980)
Is it just I who cannot found a school, or can a philosopher never do so?
Culture and Value (1980)
If someone is merely ahead of his time, it will catch up to him one day.
Culture and Value (1980)
Culture and Value (1980)
You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
Culture and Value (1980)
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Culture and Value (1980)
A confession has to be part of your new life.
Culture and Value (1980)
Culture and Value (1980)
If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained.
Culture and Value (1980)
One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.
Culture and Value (1980)
Culture and Value (1980)
It is not by recognizing the want of courage in someone else that you acquire courage yourself..
Culture and Value (1980)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ludwig Wittgenstein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.