Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact… — 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
I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
"Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something… — 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
Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can… — 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
