569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.

What can be shown, cannot be said.

The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.

Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.