Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

I am never satisfied until I can make a mathematical model of what I am studying. If I succeed in making one, I understand. If I cannot, I do not understand.

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

I think like a detective.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

Who doesn't love the parables? You know there's a solution, but you have to do some work to find it.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.

if you do not appreciate the mathematics, you cannot see, among the great variety of facts, that logic permits you to go from one to the other

What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.

The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

You can observe a lot by watching.