Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951
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Famous Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
“It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.”
“Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
Source: Tractatus logico-philosophicus: The German text Logisch-philosophische abhandlung
“It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.”
“Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.”