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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