“2.22 What a picture represents it represents independently of its truth or falsity, by means of its pictorial form.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic. The truth… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“303. "I can only believe that someone else is in pain, but I know it if I am."—Yes: one can make the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the… — 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
