We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is. — 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
If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself? — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' — 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
“Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be… — 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
Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining"… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which… — 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
'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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share
“It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed. Ethics are transcendental. (Ethics and æsthetics are one.)” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share
