12 Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes on Knowledge

Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes on knowledge

5. What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists.

23. If I cannot say a priori what elementary propositions there are, then the attempt to do so must lead to obvious nonsense. (5.5571)

40. The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know. (p. 45)

60. 1. If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.

61. 94. But I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.

64. 206. If someone asked us 'but is that true?' we might say 'yes' to him; and if he demanded grounds we might say 'I can't give you any grounds, but if you learn more you too will think the same.'

69. 378. Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

70. Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. (p. 5e)

94. Every explanation is after all an hypothesis. (p. 123)

127. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

128. Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

131. The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.