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6 Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes on Perception

Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes on perception

  1. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. (5.6)

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  2. The world of the happy is quite different from the world of the unhappy. (6.43)

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  3. It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. (6.44)

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  4. A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it. (p. 42e)

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  5. I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell them: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy.' (p. 578)

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  6. If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

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