Language Quote by Ray Monk

“Wittgenstein was very much against women's suffrage for no particular reason except that 'all women he knows are such idiots'.”

— Ray Monk

“Wittgenstein dislikes all ornamentation that is not part of the construction, and never find anything simple enough.”

— Ray Monk

“Instead of teaching doctrines and developing theories, Wittgenstein came to think, a philosopher should demonstrate a technique, a method of achieving clarity.”

— Ray Monk

“The meaning of the world, said Wittgenstein, is outside the world. Events and values are distinguishable only in relation to others. A totality of…

— Guy Davenport

“He who lives not in time, but in the present, is happy. —LUDWIG VON WITTGENSTEIN”

— William Ury

There are only two things in the world: nothing and semantics.

— Werner Erhard

The thing I think I have learned from Wittgenstein is the importance of not making things up: philosophers should not invent problems, and they…

— Tim Crane

“Bonnie Jean (who thinks all philosophers are idiots) has this quarrel with Wittgenstein, who in several places says that reddish green is inconceivable. Yet…

— Guy Davenport

“If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present." L. Wittgenstein, Philosopher”

— Chris M. Carmichael

“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to…

— Aaron Council

“Very possibly this was what was in Wittgenstein's own mind all of those years later, in face, when he said that you do no…

— David Markson

“Put a man on the brink of the abyss and--in the unlikely event that he doesn't fall into it--he will become either a mystic…

— Christos H. Papadimitriou Apostolos Doxiadis