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… - Ludwig Wittgenstein
""
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.
The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather — not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought). It will therefore only be in language that the limit can be set, and what lies on the other side of the limit will simply be nonsense.
Original German: Der Satz ist eine Wahrheitsfunktion der Elementarsätze
I should have liked to produce a good book. It has not turned out that way, but the time is past in which I could improve it.
