Ludwig Wittgenstein

The meaning of a word is its use in the language.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

The philosophical problem is not a problem about the world, but a problem about our concepts.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

The world is all that is the case.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

A good simile refreshes the intellect.

The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem.

The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.

An honest confession is good for the soul, but bad for the reputation.

The philosopher's treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

What is essential is that the picture of the world in which the problem is embedded should change.

The real discovery is the one that makes me capable of stopping doing philosophy when I want to.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Don't think, but look!

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.