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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Philosophical Investigations (1953), § 109
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Conversation of 1930
- Debate
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Philosophical Investigations (1953), § 133
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951The Blue Book (c. 1931–1935; published 1965), p. 45
- Knowledge
It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922), 6.44
There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922), 6.522
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Journal entry (1 May 1915)
The whole sense of the book might be summed up in the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922), Preface
- Talking
Paradoxes explain everything. Since they do, they cannot be explained.
Gene Wolfe1931–2019The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001), Volume 1, Ch. 9
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.
RZRobert Zend1929–1985