路德维希维特根斯坦的一些话(2009-11-30 19:33:17) 转载 标签： wittgenstein维特根斯坦thinking杂谈分类： 语言哲学 “Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.“I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horses good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.“Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.“You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.“No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesnt show hes been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.“Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.“Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.“A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.“For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.“It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.“Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.“Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.“The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. - The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.“We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door thats unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.“Dont get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.“It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.“Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only“Not every religion has to have St. Augustines attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesnt prevent it being a religious ceremony.“For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.“Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.“There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.“Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.“It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.“If you do know that here is one hand, well grant you all the rest.“If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him