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Notebooks, 1914-1916

This considerably revised second edition of Wittgenstein's 1914-16 notebooks contains a new appendix with photographs of Wittgenstein's original work, a new preface by Elizabeth Anscombe, and a useful index by E.D. Klemke. Corrections have been made

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“To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com

Tagged: Belief, Religion, Meaning, Facts, Life

“Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com

Tagged: Conscience, God, Religion, Belief, Opinion

“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com

Tagged: Language, Organism, Human Being, Complicated

“It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com

Tagged: skills, Philosophy, Questions, Focus

“My difficulty is only an — enormous — difficulty of expression.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com

Tagged: expression, difference

“Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com

Tagged: Problems, Perspective, solutions

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com

Tagged: Logic, Let It Be

“One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com

Tagged: Remark, Judgement

“My difficulty is only an — enormous — difficulty of expression.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com

Tagged: Difficulty, Expressing Yourself, difficulty of expression