What makes a subject difficult to understand if it is significant, important is not that some special instruction about abstruse… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound. — 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
If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the… — 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
