Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Quotes
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic. The truth is that we could not say what an "illogical" world would look like.
The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.
Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.
I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthought before me by another.
Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.
The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.
It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.
The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.
That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.