“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
“Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.” — 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
This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time. — 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
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought. — 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
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language. — 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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 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
“The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.” — 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
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
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
“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
