Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes on Knowledge
Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher whose work transformed 20th-century analytic philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:
“The world is everything that is the case.”
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Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
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Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
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Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:
“A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.”
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Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:
“Don't think, but look!”
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Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:
“We feel that even when all possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life remain completely untouched.”
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“It is in language that an expectation and its fulfilment make contact.”
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Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:
“What can be said at all can be said clearly, and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.”
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Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”