“Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“A right-hand glove could be put on the left hand if it could be turned round in four-dimensional space.” — 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
It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.” — 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
I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad… — 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
Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain — 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
“Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless. We cannot, therefore, answer questions of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light… — 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
There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and… — 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
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. — 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
“It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed. Ethics are transcendental. (Ethics and æsthetics are one.)” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.” — 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
“The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical… — 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
This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out… — 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 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
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
The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should… — 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
