The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of la... - Ludwig Wittgenstein
"The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language."
"The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language."
"An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it."
"There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads."
"But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting them on different shelves; nothing more being final about their positions than that they no longer lie side by side. The onlooker who doesn’t know the difficulty of the task might well think in such a case that nothing at all had been achieved."
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
"Don't think, but look! (PI 66)"