Quotes By Ludwig Wittgenstein

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

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.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

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.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

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.

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

What can be shown, cannot be said.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

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

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

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

A confession has to be part of your new life.

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

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

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.

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown 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.