Ludwig Wittgenstein's best-known sentences
The top 3 according to 3 votes from people: The world is all that is the case. · What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. · A philosophical problem has the form: 'I don't know my way about.'. (Updated Nov 14, 2020.)
From 'The world is all that is the case' to 'Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent': Wittgenstein's most famous sentences from the Tractatus, the Philosophical Investigations and Culture and Value, with their number.
Automatically translated (original in Deutsch). See the original
Top 13
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The world is all that is the case.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921), proposition 1.
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2
What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Tractatus, preface.
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A philosophical problem has the form: 'I don't know my way about.'
Philosophical Investigations, § 123.
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All philosophy is a 'critique of language'.
Tractatus, proposition 4.0031.
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5
Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
Tractatus, proposition 4.112.
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The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Tractatus, proposition 5.6.
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7
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
Tractatus, proposition 6.4311.
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8
It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists.
Tractatus, proposition 6.44.
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Tractatus, proposition 7, the last.
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10
The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
Philosophical Investigations (1953), § 43.
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Philosophical Investigations, § 109.
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12
Tragedy consists in this: the tree does not bend but breaks.
Culture and Value, 1929.
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13
Ambition is the death of thought.
Culture and Value, 1948.
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Comments (1)
Satz 7 kennt jeder, aber §123 aus den Untersuchungen finde ich viel treffender. »Ich kenne mich nicht aus« – so fühlt sich jedes Philosophieseminar an.