Ludwig Wittgenstein

"One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that."

"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy."

"Man has to awaken to wonder and so perhaps do peoples."

"It is our unshakeable conviction that there must be in the end universal agreement."

"Everything that we see could also be otherwise."

"The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is."

"Language is like a labyrinth of paths."

"Every meaningful statement must be either true or false."

"The confusion which possesses us is like the confusion of a man in a library."

"To understand is to imagine the possibility of doing otherwise."

"What is the object of philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the bottle."

"The world divides into facts."

"Only facts, not values, can be stated in language."

"I felt in him a very high and pure striving after truth."

"All that we can describe at all could be other than it is."

"Aesthetic problems are problems of aesthetics, not problems of life or death."

"Building is a meaningful activity only if it creates shelter."

"The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world."

"One thought too many makes the whole picture false."

"In a certain sense I am an artist, not because I do things, but because I see."

"The way problems are solved is often concealed by their solution."

"A name is explained by means of a description."

"Whereupon we must be silent and admire the ineffable."

"The book is written for those who will understand it."

"Every assertion carries with it the projection of a way the world might be."

"The work of science is to replace a complicated apparatus of one sort by another simpler."

"Augustine does not get close to the problems of language."

"The task is to show the fly the way out of the bottle."

"In philosophy we often compare different languages."

"If a proposition is true it must be possible to verify it."