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Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes on Mind

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 mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:

    “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

  • Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:

    “If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.”

  • Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:

    “A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.”

  • Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:

    “Don't think, but look!”

  • Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:

    “It is in language that an expectation and its fulfilment make contact.”

  • Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:

    “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”