Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes About Lying

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  • The sense of the world must lie outside the world... What we cannot speak about we must remain silent about... What can be described can happen too, and what is excluded by the laws of causality cannot be described.

  • Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain

    Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.177, Hackett Publishing
  • You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

    "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 44e), 1980.
  • Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

    "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (64e), 1980.
  • At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

  • The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather - not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought). It will therefore only be in language that the limit can be set, and what lies on the other side of the limit will simply be nonsense.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1998). “Wittgenstein's Tractatus”, McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
  • The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system of what is believed, and in that system some things stand unshakeably fast and some are more or less liable to shift. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”
  • What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • Born: April 26, 1889
  • Died: April 29, 1951
  • Occupation: Philosopher