To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. — 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
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
The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker… — 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… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I… — 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
I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the… — 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