Activity Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

“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

What can be shown, cannot be said.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“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

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

White must be the lightest color in a picture.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

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

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

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

“It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed. Ethics are transcendental. (Ethics and æsthetics are one.)”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein