Words matter. These are the best Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn’t find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
What can be shown, cannot be said.
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word ‘I.’
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
A man’s thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
A philosophical problem has the form: I don’t know my way about.
The world is independent of my will.
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
A confession has to be part of your new life.
A confession has to be part of your new life.
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
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 still not a clear one.
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn’t find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word ‘I.’
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
A picture is a fact.
You learned the concept ‘pain’ when you learned language.
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
What can be shown, cannot be said.
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
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 still not a clear one.
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine’s attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn’t prevent it being a religious ceremony.
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
