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












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

More Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes
"The limits of your language are the limits of your world.
"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
"How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
"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 fall into one of the grooves
"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 im...
"I am my world.
"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...
"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is...
"Don't think, but look! (PI 66)
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
"The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.