Wittgenstein, Richard

"The thinking subject is surely pure and simple, and not the body."

"A proposition is a picture of reality."

"It is impossible to say what words mean; we can only say what they do."

"Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is."

"Language is a tool. But is the same tool always used in the same way? Is the hammer always used to hit nails?"

"Everything we see could also be otherwise."

"To understand a sentence means to understand a language."

"The facts stand in space and time relative to one another."

"One cannot lay hold of a grammatical rule and therefore a boundary of language."

"Whatever objects are not in the world are not objects."

"The job of philosophy is not to settle things once and for all, but to unsettle them again and again."

"A proposition shows its sense. A proposition shows how things stand if it is true."

"We cannot think anything illogical, for otherwise we should have to think illogically."

"Any order into which things can be arranged is, by virtue of that very fact, absolutely arbitrary."

"At the basis of the whole modern view of the world lies the illusion that the so-called laws of nature are explanations of natural phenomena."

"The generality-principle of our language is the employment of the same word in different truth-grounds."

"To believe in God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter."

"The way to solve the problem you see in life is to live in a way that will make the problem disappear."

"The mystical is not how things are in the world; it is that they are."

"Is it possible that a person might be so ignorant as to ask 'What is water?'"

"The proposition is articulate."

"Every fact can be such that it is not, and every possible state of affairs is contingent."

"The sign is the name and the designation."

"Objects may be mentioned in a proposition even if the name stands for nothing."

"A fact is what corresponds to the positive or negative content of an atomic proposition."

"The eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."

"The meaning of life is the meaning of language."

"Language is no predicate of reality; it is part of reality."

"To ask the question 'What is meaning?' is to ask the question 'What is language?'"

"Philosophy will have completely dissolved the problems when language has been fully clarified."