Wittgenstein, Richard

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"Freedom is the right to do what you ought."

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

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

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

"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."

"What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence."

"Don't think, but look!"

"The more narrowly we examine actual language, the sharper becomes the conflict between it and our requirement."

"If you wish to leave a track in the history of the world, you must accomplish something which the world thinks important."

"Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to observe how it does it."

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

"Of what is great, one must either be silent or speak with greatness."

"Mysticism is not how the world is, but that it is."

"A main source of our failure to understand is that we do not command a clear view of the use of our words."

"The sense of the world must lie outside the world."

"In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable."

"Language disguises thought."

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

"When we do philosophy we are like savages, primitive people, who hear the expressions of civilized men, put a false interpretation on them, and then draw the queerest conclusions from it."

"One thinks that one is tracing the outline of the thing's nature over and over again, and one is merely tracing round the frame through which we look at it."

"The propositions of logic are tautologies."

"Nothing is hidden."

"The work of the philosopher consists in assembling reminders for a particular purpose."

"Suppose someone were a believer and said: 'I believe in a Last Judgement,' and I said: 'Well, I'm not so sure. Possibly.' You would say that there is something wrong here, even if we both believe the same things about physics."

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

"The picture is laid against reality like a measure."

"An inner process stands in need of outward criteria."