Wittgenstein, Richard

"One cannot think anything illogical."

"What can be shown cannot be said."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"A proposition is a function of the terms of which it consists."

"Naming appears to be the same strange process as explaining the meaning of a word to someone who doesn't understand it."

"The world exists independently of how things happen to be."

"The value of philosophy lies in its capacity to change our views."

"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death."

"The subject is the bearer of ethical properties, not the object."

"Every statement about complexes can be resolved into a statement about their constituents."

"What cannot be said can at least be hinted at through the ethical and the beautiful."

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

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

"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 can be shown, cannot be said."

"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."

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

"Don't think, look! Open your eyes and see."

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

"Ethics and aesthetics are one and the same."

"Everything we see could be otherwise. Everything we say could be said differently."

"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."

"A man will be imprisoned in a room with an open door; he will not even see it."

"It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists."

"The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity."

"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

"We cannot think of anything so strange and so puzzling that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another."

"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."