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
Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who… — 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
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
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
What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms? — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the… — 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
