Ludwig Wittgenstein Use Quotations

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.

If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?

We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is.

One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.

Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined 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 to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.

Freud 's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. (Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness.

Don't look for the meanings; look for the use.