Quotes About Understanding

Tem de admitir-se que é verdade que saber qualquer coisa não implica pensar nisso - mas alguém que saiba de alguma coisa não tem de ser capaz de duvidar dela? E duvidar significa pensar.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it. (That so often happens with someone you love.)

We here touch one instance of Wittgenstein's fundamental thesis, that it is impossible to say anything about the world as a whole, and that whatever can be said has to be about bounded portions of the world.

There is not a single philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, different therapies, as it were.

Gränserna för mitt språk innebär gränserna för min värld.

ÖÄŸretmek istediÄŸim ÅŸey ÅŸu: Örtük bir saçmal?ktan aç?k bir saçmal??a geçmek.

the tendency of all men who ever tried to write or talk Ethics or Religion was to run against the boundaries of language. This running against the walls of our cage is perfectly, absolutely hopeless.

In order to know an object, I must know not its external but all its internal qualities.

Vi känner att även när alla möjliga vetenskapliga frågor har besvarats, så har våra livsproblem inte ens blivit berörda. Då återstår förstås inte heller någon fråga - och just det är svaret.

The limits of my language are the limits of my world.

The thought is the significant proposition

to be considered an important event in the philosophical world.

Thence we pass successively to Theory of Knowledge, Principles of Physics, Ethics, and finally the Mystical (das Mystische).

A certeza é por assim dizer um tom de voz em que alguém declara como são as coisas, mas não se infere desse tom que tem razão.

the conditions for sense rather than nonsense in combinations of symbols;

Don't treat your common sense like an umbrella. When you come into a room to philosophize, don't leave it outside but bring it in with you.

The older I grow, the more I realize how terribly difficult it is for people to understand each other, and I think that what misleads one is the fact that they all look so much like each other. If some people looked like elephants and others like cats, or fish, one wouldn't expect them to understand each other and things would look much more like what they really are.

If we surrender the reins to language and not to life , then the problems of philosophy arise.

That ?, ?, etc., are not relations in the sense of right and left, etc., is obvious.

476. Children do not learn that books exist, that armchairs exist, etc. etc., - they learn to fetch books, sit in armchairs, etc. etc.

The limit of language is shown by its being impossible to describe the fact which corresponds to (is the translation of) a sentence, without simply repeating the sentence.

Logic precedes every experience—that something is so.

Toda mi tendencia, y creo que la tendencia de todos los humanos que han tratado alguna vez de hablar o escribir sobre ética y religión, llevaba a estrellarnos contra los límites del lenguaje. Esta carrera contra los muros de nuestra jaula es algo perfecta y absolutamente sin esperanza.

The limits of your world are the limits of your language