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Biography - Ludwig Wittgenstein:

Austrian-British philosopher.
Born: 1889 - Died: 1951
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Austria
Austria

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.


Note 

Note



Other version: "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."


Quote source: Philosophical Investigations

Internet archive - Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical investigations (en) 



Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
La philosophie est une bataille contre l'ensorcellement de l'intelligence par le langage.

German
Die Philosophie ist ein Kampf gegen die Verhexung unseres Verstandes durch die Mittel unserer Sprache.




See also 

See also...



Language is a source of misunderstanding.

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

The language of truth is simple.

The mind of man is so framed that it is rather taken with the false colors than truth.




Quotes for: philosophy


Quotes

Quotes about philosophy:


To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.





There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.






Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.





Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.





Happiness is the goal of philosophy. Or to be more precise, the goal of philosophy is wisdom, and therefore happiness.





Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.











Quotes for: intelligence


Quotes

Quotes about intelligence:


Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.





What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.





Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.





The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.





The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.











Quotes for: Language


Quotes

Quotes for: Language


Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.





Language is the house of the truth of Being.





Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.





Language serves not only to express thoughts, but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.





The language of friendship is not words but meanings.





The meaning of a word is its use in the language.











Quotes

Ludwig Wittgenstein also said...


The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.





What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.





The meaning of a word is its use in the language.





Ethics and aesthetics are one and the same.





Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.





Thoughts at peace. That is the goal someone who philosophizes longs for.












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