If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images. Ludwig Wittgenstein More Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein More Quotes From Ludwig Wittgenstein What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use. Ludwig Wittgenstein metaphysical everyday use 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. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophical philosophy children A logical picture of facts is a thought. Ludwig Wittgenstein logical facts Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it. Ludwig Wittgenstein use may philosophy If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from the southwest. Ludwig Wittgenstein blue yellow wind 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. Ludwig Wittgenstein language use class It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it. Ludwig Wittgenstein solve easier problem What makes a subject difficult to understand if it is significant, important is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will. Ludwig Wittgenstein understanding important people We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman. Ludwig Wittgenstein wall photography men Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say:;: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning. Ludwig Wittgenstein different kind thinking Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophical holiday goes-on A picture is a model of reality. Ludwig Wittgenstein models reality Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one. Ludwig Wittgenstein learning views knowledge Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting. Ludwig Wittgenstein willing acting wish And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life. Ludwig Wittgenstein imagine form language People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it. Ludwig Wittgenstein stupid ideas art It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood? Ludwig Wittgenstein one-word understood impossible I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent." Ludwig Wittgenstein mathematics process science The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem. Ludwig Wittgenstein vanishing problem life-is It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosopher problem thinking