Ludwig Wittgenstein on Writing
Browse 11 quotations attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein, catalogued under writing, with dates where available.
This page displays 11 quotations attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein and filed under "writing" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein, entry #114695: "What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stood."
Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein, entry #104091: "There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical."
11 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein on Writing
"What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stood."
"There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical."
"For a large class of cases — though not for all — in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language."
"For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules — it hasn't been taught us by means of strict rules, either."
"The problems are dissolved in the actual sense of the word — like a lump of sugar in water."
"We must plow through the whole of language."
"A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion."
"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."
"But ordinary language is all right."
"Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it."
"370. But more correctly: The fact that I use the word "hand" and all the other words in my sentence without a second thought, indeed that I should stand before the abyss if I wanted so much as to try doubting their meanings — shows that absence of doubt belongs to the essence of the language-game, that the question "How do I know..." drags out the language-game, or else does away with it."