“But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together,… — 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
“It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed. Ethics are transcendental. (Ethics and æsthetics are one.)” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis [i.e., under the aspect of eternity]; and the good life is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“[Philosophy] must set limits to what can be thought; and, in doing so, to what cannot be thought. It must set limits… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“What I mean to do is pass from unobvious nonsense to obvious nonsense” — 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
Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. A philosophical… — 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
