To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The mechanism which we don't understand is not anything in our soul, but rather that of the life of this expression.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
What makes a subject difficult to understand if it is significant, important is not that some special instruction about abstruse… — 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
