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Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy, Limits, Unthinkable

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy, Reality, Theory

Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.9, Routledge

Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Children, Philosophy, Philosophical

Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.175, Hackett Publishing

A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy, Opposites, Important

"Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information" edited by Alois Pichler and Herbert Hrachovec, (p. 140), 2008.

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy, Philosophical, Doctrine

Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.29, Psychology Press

The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy, Philosopher, Consciousness

"Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951" edited by James Carl Klagge and Alfred Nordmann, Ch. 9, (p. 165), 1993.

All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy, Real, Philosophical

Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.23, Psychology Press

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy, Doors, Trying

Conversation in 1930. "Ludwig Wittgenstein: Personal Recollections". Book by Rush Rhees, Chapter 6, 1981.