Quotes By Ludwig Wittgenstein

A confession has to be part of your new life.

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

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

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

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

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

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

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.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

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

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

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.

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

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

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.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

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

A picture is a fact.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

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

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

The face is the soul of the body.

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.

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

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.