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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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations


Note 

Note



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


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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Recherches philosophiques

German
Die Philosophie ist ein Kampf gegen die Verhexung unseres Verstandes durch die Mittel unserer Sprache.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophische Untersuchungen



See also 

See also...



Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus

Language is a source of misunderstanding.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

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

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.
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell - Politics and the English Language

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.
George Orwell - Politics and the English Language

The language of truth is simple.
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

The mind of man is so framed that it is rather taken with the false colors than truth.
Desiderius Erasmus - In Praise of Folly

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



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.
René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy / 





There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / 





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 





Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation / 





Happiness is the goal of philosophy. Or to be more precise, the goal of philosophy is wisdom, and therefore happiness.
André Comte-Sponville / 





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.
Epicurus - Letter to Menoeceus / 






All about philosophy...




Quotes for: intelligence


Quotes

Quotes about intelligence:


Intelligence has value only in the service of love.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery / 





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





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





Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant - Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment? / 





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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald / 





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






All about intelligence...




Quotes for: Language


Quotes

Quotes for: Language


Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.
Marcus Tullius Cicero - De oratore / 





Language is the house of the truth of Being.
Martin Heidegger / 





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





Language serves not only to express thoughts, but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
Bertrand Russell - Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits / 





The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau - A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / 





The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations / 






All Language quotes...




Quotes

Ludwig Wittgenstein also said...


The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus / 





What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus / 





The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations / 





Ethics and aesthetics are one and the same.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus / 





Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus / 





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







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