Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.
Ludwig WittgensteinMost of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.
Ludwig WittgensteinWhen you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
Ludwig WittgensteinAll 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 WittgensteinSince social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.
Ludwig Wittgenstein