Tractatus Logico Philosophicus Quotes

“Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

topic:belief

“The logical picture of the facts is the thought.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

topic:thought

“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

topic:thoughtspeech

“Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

topic:thoughtphilosophy

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

topic:speechsilence

“Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

topic:philosophytheory

“Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

topic:philosophy

“We cannot think anything unlogical, for otherwise we should have to think unlogically.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

topic:thinking

“Definitions are rules for the translation of one language into another.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

topic:language

“The solution of logical problems must be simple for they set the standard of simplicity.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

topic:simplicity