My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

The world is the totality of facts, not of things

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.