The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape. — 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
“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
“Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless. ... (They are of the same… — 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
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
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
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
“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
The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher. — 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
