The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
A picture is a fact.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Don’t ask for the meaning, ask for the use.
If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.
The meaning of a word is its use in language.
The world is everything that is the case.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
A logical picture of facts is a thought.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
The limits of language are the limits of our world.
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 him to pull rather than push.
What can be said at all, can be said clearly; and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about.
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to.
If you cannot speak up in your field, you may just be blowing hot air.
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
The world of the happy is quite a different one from that of the unhappy.
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
The difficulty is to realize the groundlessness of our believing.
What can be shown, cannot be said.
The man who believes that the reasonable human being is the measure of all things, I call a humanist.
The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
A proposition is a picture of reality.
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world, if you do so, you are insulting yourself.
There are things you cannot talk about but can only show.
The real question of life after death isn’t whether or not it exists, but even if it does, what problem this really solves.
Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
The world is all that is the case.
The world is everything that happens.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts.
Our greatest stupidities are very wise.
I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Grammar tells us what kind of object anything is.
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
The real question of life after death isn’t whether or not it exists, but even if it does, what problem this really solves.
There must be primitive elements in order to explain composite objects.
I know, of course, that there is no one meaning for a word.
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