No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule. — 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
Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic… — 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
If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather - not to thought, but to the expression… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say:;: The point isn't the word, but its meaning,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer,… — 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
Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: "Let's have done with it now," and it's having constantly… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable… — 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
![“Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one's thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.” quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/051/ludwig-wittgenstein-582_december_schiller-writes-in-a-letter-to-goethe-17_1906986.png)
