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 WittgensteinBecause our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
Ludwig WittgensteinIt's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?
Ludwig WittgensteinEvery sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?
Ludwig WittgensteinThe truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have found, on all essential points, the final solution of the problems. And if I am not mistaken in this belief, then the second thing in which the value of this work consists is that it shows how little is achieved when these problems are solved.
Ludwig Wittgenstein