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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language disguises thought. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain — Ludwig Wittgenstein

If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children 'There are no fairies'; he can omit to teach them the word 'fairy'. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

A right-hand glove could be put on the left hand if it could be turned round in four-dimensional space. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Don't think, but look! (PI 66) — Ludwig Wittgenstein

But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

So in the end, when one is doing philosophy, one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity — Ludwig Wittgenstein

How small a thought it takes to fill a life. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

More wisdom is contained in the best
crime fiction than in philosophy. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The limits of your language are the limits of your world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

A logical picture of facts is a thought. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy limits the disputable sphere of natural science. — Ludwig Wittgenstein