Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is not by any means clear to me, that I wish for a continuation of my life.

I am not a religious man but I cannot help seeing every problem from a religious point of view.

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

Genius is not a gift, but the fruit of hard work.

To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.

The great difficulty is to realize that it is not I who am thinking, but the language which is thinking in me.

The problems of philosophy are not empirical problems. They are solved, rather, by looking into the workings of our language, and that in such a way as to make us recognize those workings: in despite of an urge to misunderstand them.

What we are supplying are really remarks on the natural history of human beings; we are not contributing curiosities however, but observations which no one has doubted, but which have escaped remark only because they are always before our eyes.

The difficulty is to stop.

One cannot think without language.

Meaning is use.

The limits of empiricism are not where one would expect them to be.

The philosopher must not be a specialist.

My mind is not a philosophical mind.

The greatest danger is not that our machines will rebel against us, but that they will do exactly what we tell them to do.

Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about.

The true method of philosophy is to say nothing except what can be said, i.e. propositions of natural science.

An entire mythology is stored in our language.

It is not a matter of teaching the student of philosophy new facts, but of teaching him new ways of looking at old facts.

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