Ludwig wittgenstein quotes thinking limit

Ludwig Wittgenstein (26 April1889 – 29 April1951) was an Austrian-born philosopher who spent much of his life in England.

Quotes

1910s

• It seems to me as good as certain that we cannot get the upper hand against England.

  The English — the best race in the world — cannot lose! We, however, can lose and shall lose, if not this year then next year. The thought that our race is going to be beaten depresses me terribly, because I am completely German.

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  • Writing about the eventual outcome of World War I, in which he was a volunteer in the Austro-Hungarian army (25 October 1914), as quoted in The First World War (2004) by Martin Gilbert, p. 104

• I work quite diligently and wish that I were better and smarter.

  And these both are one and the same.

  • In a letter to Paul Engelmann (1917) as quoted in The Idea of Justice (2010) by Amartya Sen, p. 31

• You won't — I really believe — get too much out of reading it.

  Because you won'