How to Read Wittgenstein Quotes

“Logic is not a science that discovers truths; it is just a collection of tautologies.”
― Ray Monk, How To Read Wittgenstein

“the importance of preserving the integrity of a non-scientific form of understanding, the kind of understanding characteristic of the arts and the kind of understanding that Goethe, Spengler and Wittgenstein sought to protect from the encroachment of science and scientism.”
― Ray Monk, How To Read Wittgenstein

“Our civilization is characterized by the word ‘progress’. Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only as a means to this end, not as an end in itself. For me on the contrary clarity, perspicuity are valuable in themselves.”
― Ray Monk, How To Read Wittgenstein

“meaningful propositions are limited to picturing states of affairs in the world, and value,”
― Ray Monk, How To Read Wittgenstein

“Everything in the world can be pictured, but a picture cannot represent its own pictorial form; this has to be shown rather than said.”
― Ray Monk, How To Read Wittgenstein

“Wittgenstein calls tautologies and contradictions ‘pseudo-propositions’; they are not real propositions, because real propositions can be either true or false.”
― Ray Monk, How To Read Wittgenstein

“Tautologies, according to Wittgenstein, are senseless, because, as they do not picture the world, they lack sense.”
― Ray Monk, How To Read Wittgenstein

“Propositions can only say how things are, not what they are.”
― Ray Monk, How To Read Wittgenstein