Wittgenstein, Richard

"To understand me, you must understand my preoccupations."

"The first thought that comes to your mind is usually someone else's; the second is God's; the third is yours."

"In mathematics we are not interested in the physical, but only in the logical, properties of the objects."

"A confession has to be a radical change of life."

"The way out of philosophy is to abandon the notion that words have meanings that are independent of their use."

"Perfection does not mean that something is perfect, but that it is appropriate."

"It is so hard not to say what you think. And it's not about dishonesty; it's about politeness."

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

"Problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known."

"A person can recognize something wrong with their life without being able to explain what it is."

"My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me must eventually recognize them as nonsensical."

"Nothing we do can be defended absolutely and finally. Everything we do stands on uncertain ground."

"The meaning of a word is its use in the language."

"Resting on his laurels is a dangerous thing for a man to do, especially if his laurels are made of paper."

"I don't know my way about things anymore."

"What a remarkable discovery it would be if it turned out that ethics was something we could discuss in words."

"The picture theory: a proposition is a picture of a possible fact."

"One language-game can be replaced by another, but the nature of language-games does not change."

"It is in language that an expectation and its fulfillment make contact."

"Do not ask for the meaning, ask for the use."

"If we know that the truth is one thing and the facts are another, we must learn to live with this knowledge."

"The solution lies not in the solving of a problem, but in its dissolution."