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
A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The atmosphere surrounding this problem is terrible. Dense clouds of language lie about the crucial point. It is almost impossible to get… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought. — 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
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is… — 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
Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means 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
