Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. — 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
There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.” — 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
One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions.… — 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
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists… — 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
