You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic. — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
