Wittgenstein, Ludwig

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."

"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."

"The world is everything that is the case."

"Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday."

"Don't think, look!"

"The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know."

"What can be said at all can be said clearly."

"If we fix our thoughts on the problem of death, we see how senseless is the wish so to exist always."

"Whereof we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence."

"To imagine a language means to imagine a form of life."

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

"Logic is transcendental."

"Ethics and aesthetics are one and the same."

"The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem."

"It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists."

"Nothing is more important than teaching people to read in the right way."

"A man will be imprisoned in a room with an open door."

"The more you own, the more it owns you."

"Sarcasm is the last refuge of modest and chaste souls."

"A single idea, if it is right, saves us from labour."

"The good life is a process, not a state of being."

"One cannot write anything about oneself that is more interesting than what one can discover about the world."

"How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes."

"Genius is talent exercised with courage."

"I am not interested in constructing a building of thought, but in placing before myself the foundations of possible buildings."

"To understand a sentence, we do not always need to have a detailed knowledge of the facts it is about."

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

"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."

"If I have exhausted the justifications I have reached bedrock, and my spade is turned."