Quote #47
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language. #109
More from Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. #6
- What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use. #116
- Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult '…
- What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stood. #118
- The aim of philosophy is to erect a wall at the point where language stops anyway. (p.187)
- Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. #120
- The problems are dissolved in the actual sense of the word - like a lump of sugar in water. (p.183)
- If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do…