“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
We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis [i.e., under the aspect of eternity]; and the good life is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which… — 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