Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes on Knowledge
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What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists.
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If I cannot say a priori what elementary propositions there are, then the attempt to do so must lead to obvious nonsense. (5.5571)
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The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know. (p. 45)
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1. If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
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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.
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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.'
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378. Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. (p. 5e)
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Every explanation is after all an hypothesis. (p. 123)
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Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.