怀疑者若想怀疑一切,他就什么也怀疑不成。
A doubter who doubted everything would not be doubting.
路德维希·维特根斯坦出生于奥地利维也纳的钢铁巨擘家庭,早年学习航空工程,后在罗素的引介下进入剑桥大学从事逻辑与哲学研究。一战期间他志愿参军并在前线撰写了《逻辑哲学论》,出版后认为自己已解决所有哲学根本问题,一度放弃哲学去奥地利乡村担任小学教师、园丁,并设计建构了维特根斯坦宅邸。1929年他重返剑桥,彻底批判和反思自己早期思想,发展出以“语言游戏”和“家族相似性”为核心的后期哲学,其遗作《哲学研究》深刻改变了现代哲学的发展轨迹。
怀疑者若想怀疑一切,他就什么也怀疑不成。
A doubter who doubted everything would not be doubting.
世界就是一切发生的事情。
The world is all that is the case.
The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather
证明的终点不是某种更为清晰的知识,而是一种行为方式。
The end of justification is not a clearer knowledge, but an acting mode.
必须接受的东西,给定的东西,可以说就是生活形式。
What has to be accepted, the given, is — so one might say — forms of life.
一个哲学问题的形式是:‘我找不到路。’
A philosophical problem has the form: 'I don't know my way about.'
解决你生活中问题的方法,是创造一种能使那种问题消失的生活方式。
The solution to the problem you see in life is a way of living which makes that which is problematic disappear.
We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
不要陷入细节问题的纠缠,而要时刻飞向可以俯瞰自由全景的高处。
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole relevant area.
遵循规则是一种习惯、一种实践、一种建制。
To obey a rule, to make a report, to give an order, to play a game of chess, are customs (uses, institutions).
世界是事实的总和,而不是事物的总和。
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
千万不要害怕说胡话!但是你必须密切注意你所说的胡话。
Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
假如我非得依靠梯子才能到达我要去的地方,我就会放弃去那儿的念头。因为我必须去的地方,是我现在站立的地方。
If I had to rely on a ladder to reach where I want to go, I would give up the idea of going there. For the place I must go is the place where I am now standing.
主体不属于世界,而是世界的界限。
The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.
视界中没有任何东西能让你推断出它是被一只眼睛看见的。
For nothing in the visual field allows you to infer that it is seen by an eye.
野心是思想的死敌。
Ambition is the death of thought.
永远不要停留在聪明的荒凉高地上,而要降落到愚拙的绿色山谷中。
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
良心可以说是上帝的声音。
Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.
哲学绝不能干涉语言的实际使用;它最终只能描述语言。因为它不能为语言提供任何基础。它让一切保持原样。
Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it. For it cannot give it any foundation either. It leaves everything as it is.
I squander untold effort making an arrangement of my thoughts that may have no value whatever.
I cannot get from the nature of the proposition to the individual logical operations!!! That is, I cannot bring out how far the proposition is the picture of the situation. I am almost inclined to give up all my efforts.
Bach wrote on the title page of his Orgelbüchlein: "To the glory of the most high God, and that my neighbour may be benefited thereby." That is what I would have liked to say about my work.
我们不能思考非逻辑的东西,因为否则我们就必须非逻辑地思考。
We cannot think what we cannot think; so what we cannot think we cannot say either.
在我看来,在每一种文化中我都遇到写着‘智慧’的章节。于是我知道,我不必再去读下去了,因为那里不会有任何真正的智慧。
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know that I don't need to read any further, because there won't be any real wisdom there.