In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable… — 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
A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But, if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts… — 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
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought. — 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
...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they… — 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
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather - not to thought, but to the expression… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“That it doesn’t strike us at all when we look around us, move about in space, feel our own bodies, etc. etc.,… — 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
“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