A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The atmosphere surrounding this problem is terrible. Dense clouds of language lie about the crucial point. It is almost impossible to get… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Our investigation is a grammatical one. Such an investigation sheds light on our problem by clearing misunderstandings away. Misunderstandings concerning the use… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Think, for example, of the words which you perhaps utter in this space of time. They are no longer part of this… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share
“This is connected with the conception of naming as a process that is, so to speak, occult. Naming seems to be a _strange_ connection… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share
Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share
In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share
A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share
Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important?… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share
“It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed. Ethics are transcendental. (Ethics and æsthetics are one.)” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share
