If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . .… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life . — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about. — 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
It is obvious that an imagined # world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something -… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically… — 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
