Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on...

I am my world.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belo...

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.

It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not f...

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so ...

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exac...

The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of...

If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that ...

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Language disguises thought.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensi...

The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.

Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing ...

Der Zweck der Philosophie ist die logische Klärung der Gedanken.Die Philosophie ist keine Lehre, son...

6.4311Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht.Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht u...

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language dis...

I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthough...

If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children 'There are no fairies...

Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.

But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books...

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over th...

Don't think, but look! (PI 66)

The world is independent of my will.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was sta...

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

Music conveys to us itself!

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there ...

I realize then that the disappearance of a culture does not signify the disappearance of human value...

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am n...

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats,...

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

He who lives in the present lives in eternity.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.

In the middle of a conversation, someone says to me out of the blue: "I wish you luck." I am astonis...

The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub ...

There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. I...

I have extremely little courage myself, much less than you; but I have found that whenever, after a ...

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that...

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill...

I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of...

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what probl...

Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.

There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosoph...

Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all.....

The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.

The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background ...

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does ...

A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree ...

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep ag...

What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural...

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be a...

Some people's taste is to an educated taste as is the visual impression received by a purblind eye t...

Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in ...

The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e....

If you have a room which you do not want certain people to get into, put a lock on it for which they...

Everything ritualistic must be strictly avoided, because it immediately turns rotten. Of course a ki...

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if ...

Getting hold of the difficulty deep down is what is hard. Because if it is grasped near the surface ...

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

Christianity is not a doctrine, I mean, a theory about what has happened and will happen to the huma...

Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the h...

One interesting thing is the idea that people have of a kind of science of Aesthetics. I would almos...

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', ...

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting...

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man decla...

476. Children do not learn that books exist, that armchairs exist, etc.,etc. - they learn to fetch b...

Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant—so that he constantly call...

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since lo...

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language ...

For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught...

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be sai...

The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.

There can never be surprises in logic.

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert u...

The gramophone record, the musical thought, the score, the waves of sound, all stand to one another ...

The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.

It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic...

That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

The right method of philosophy would be this. To say nothing except what can be said, i.e. the propo...

Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the f...

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have somet...

Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaqu...

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still ...

Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.