The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. — 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
“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.” — 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
“It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic. The truth… — 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
Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task… — 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
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can… — 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
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“303. "I can only believe that someone else is in pain, but I know it if I am."—Yes: one can make the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to… — 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 object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. A philosophical… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis.… — 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,… — 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
“Der Zweck der Philosophie ist die logische Klärung der Gedanken. Die Philosophie ist keine Lehre, sondern eine Tätigkeit. Ein philosophisches Werk besteht… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape. — 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
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
“Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“What I mean to do is pass from unobvious nonsense to obvious nonsense” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. — 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
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