Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“We are struggling with language. We are engaged in a struggle with language.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The gramophone record, the musical thought, the score, the waves of sound, all stand to one another in that pictorial internal relation,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say:;: The point isn't the word, but its meaning,… — 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
Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. — 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
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
The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather - not to thought, but to the expression… — 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
“Our investigation is a grammatical one. Such an investigation sheds light on our problem by clearing misunderstandings away. Misunderstandings concerning the use… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“If we hear a Chinese we tend to take his speech for inarticulate gurgling. Someone who understands Chinese will recognize language in… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use. — 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
