Wittgenstein, Ludwig

"Only the man who lives not for pleasure lives."

"If a man could say nothing unless he said something true, how much would be left unsaid?"

"The good is something beyond the world."

"The work of the philosopher consists in assembling reminders."

"One cannot think crookedly or correctly."

"Don't think, look!"

"The world is determined not by the facts, but by its sense being determined."

"A sentence is a tableau vivant of a possible fact."

"Games are the most educational and delightful form of activity."

"I don't need to think about it, I need to see it."

"Nothing is more important than finding the right way to see things."

"Words are like tools, and we misuse them when we use them wrongly."

"The mathematician produces essences, the engineer produces materials."

"To have a picture of something is not to understand it."

"Language is like a city; over centuries it has grown, and growth is unplanned."

"Confusion is removed by finding distinctions that were not seen before."

"We cannot leap beyond our own shadows."

"One sees the same thing constantly, but still sees it as if for the first time."

"The philosopher's job is like showing you the way out of a fly bottle."

"Everything that can be said can be said clearly."

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

"In imagination we put the picture of something alongside the thing itself."

"Propositions are pictures of possible states of affairs."

"Our craving for generality has deep sources."

"We have been bewitched by a picture, and we cannot get out of it."

"The subject does not appear in the proposition; in the proposition it is already presupposed."

"Understanding a sentence means understanding a language."

"It is not possible to think anything illogical."

"Mystery is not how things are, but that they are."

"The only certainty is uncertainty itself."