Wittgenstein, Richard

"Our life is such that it makes no sense to speak of justice or injustice in relation to it."

"The demand for certainty is an intellectual passion which no argument can appease."

"Family resemblance holds many philosophical problems at bay."

"What an extraordinary thing to say! 'The world is everything that is the case.' As if that were saying something."

"There are two ways to conquer the world. One is by force, the other is by understanding."

"The most important thing is the ethical. It is the only universally valid standard."

"When we do philosophy, we are like a child who wants to ask about the sky being held up."

"I sit in front of the fire and woo my muse, but she does not come."

"The correct method in philosophy would really be the following: to say nothing except what can be said."

"Clarity is the principal goal. Philosophy aims at being completely clear about questions."

"Once you see the block, you cannot unsee it. Language shapes what we are able to think."

"What we cannot think, we cannot think; therefore we also cannot say what we cannot think."

"The solution lies in the dissolution of the problem."

"A picture is a fact. What we see in a picture is what the picture shows us."

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

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

"The word 'God' is a meaningful word. It means something quite definite to millions of people."

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

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

"Don't think, but look! Look at the actual use of words."

"A proposition has sense only if we know what would be the case if it were true."

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

"If we possessed all possible scientific knowledge, it would not touch even one of our real problems."

"Ethics cannot be expressed in words. It is clear that ethics cannot be put into words."

"What can be said at all can be said clearly; what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence."

"The fact that life is problematic shows that the shape of one's life does not fit into the shape of the world."

"One of the most dangerous of errors is the error of thinking that a theory must be wrong because it is old."

"Genius is talent exercised with courage."

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

"Everything is what it is, and not another thing."