It is difficult to deviate from an old line of thought…

“In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the…

— Stephen Hawking

There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate when combined…

— David E. Cooper

“Wittgenstein's language has the singularly rare quality of being both colloquial and painstakingly precise.”

— Ray Monk

“Said in reference to Ludwig Wittgenstein: "Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Put a man on the brink of the abyss and--in the unlikely event that he doesn't fall into it--he will become either a mystic…

— Christos H. Papadimitriou Apostolos Doxiadis

“Very possibly this was what was in Wittgenstein's own mind all of those years later, in face, when he said that you do no…

— David Markson

“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to…

— Aaron Council

“If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present." L. Wittgenstein, Philosopher”

— Chris M. Carmichael

“Bonnie Jean (who thinks all philosophers are idiots) has this quarrel with Wittgenstein, who in several places says that reddish green is inconceivable. Yet…

— Guy Davenport

The thing I think I have learned from Wittgenstein is the importance of not making things up: philosophers should not invent problems, and they…

— Tim Crane

There are only two things in the world: nothing and semantics.

— Werner Erhard

“He who lives not in time, but in the present, is happy. —LUDWIG VON WITTGENSTEIN”

— William Ury

“The meaning of the world, said Wittgenstein, is outside the world. Events and values are distinguishable only in relation to others. A totality of…

— Guy Davenport

“As a consequence of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, the questions once asked by philosophy have now passed into the realms of poetry. The way poetry is…

— Paul Strathern

“Instead of teaching doctrines and developing theories, Wittgenstein came to think, a philosopher should demonstrate a technique, a method of achieving clarity.”

— Ray Monk