A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm? — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself? — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but… — 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
If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or… — 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
No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended.… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
What makes a subject difficult to understand if it is significant, important is not that some special instruction about abstruse… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have… — 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
If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained. — 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
If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he… — 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
When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it… — 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share
“It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed. Ethics are transcendental. (Ethics and æsthetics are one.)” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share
