Talk:Ludwig Wittgenstein

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• From the introduction to the Tractatus: "...the aim of this book is to draw a limit to thought, or rather — not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to be able to draw a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable..."

• The later Wittgenstein: "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."

• "Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."

• "If one tries to advance 'theses' (i.e. theories) in philosophy, it would never be possible to debate them, because everyone would agree to them."

• "The answer to every philosophical question is a truism."

• "Philosophy simply puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything."
• I think from Philosophical Investigations, there is a variant on 'whereof one cannot speak, nothing should be spoken' which goes "A nothing is as good as a something about which nothing can be said"
• "Ambition is the death of thought." (Somewhere in the Culture and Value compilation.)