Quotes By Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

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

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

A picture is a fact.

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.

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

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

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

The face is the soul of the body.

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

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

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

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

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

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.

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

The world is independent of my will.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

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.

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.

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

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

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

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.

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