“We are struggling with language. We are engaged in a struggle with language.” — 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
A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.” — 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
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
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
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
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. — 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
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
A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order… — 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
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
You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on. — 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
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought. — 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
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
“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
