Ludwig Wittgenstein famous quotes

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Fitness #Philosophical #Communication

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Real #Doe #Problem

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

#Philosophy #Philosophical #Humor

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Communication #Different #World

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Long #Giving #Information

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#World #Mystery

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Philosophical #Needs #Criteria

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Philosophy #Garden #Tree

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.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Life #Horse #Moments

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Deception #Investing #Deceiving

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Philosopher #Should #Take Your Time

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

#Inspirational #Education #Dream

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

#Philosophical #Boxers #Philosopher

There can never be surprises in logic.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Math #Logic #Surprise

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.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Moving On #Moving Forward #Men

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

#Clever #Intelligent #Height

Language disguises thought.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Language #Disguise

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

#Philosophical #Mean #Common

Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Matter

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.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Life #Death #Mean

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

#Philosophical #Mean #Sun

A confession has to be part of your new life.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Life #Philosophical #New Life

Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Change #Memories #Way

The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Self #Feelings #Brain

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

#Philosophical #Language #Complicated

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Wisdom #Vanity #Culture

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Design #Said

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

#Lying #Knowledge #Too Much

I am my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#World

Aim at being loved without being admired.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Aim #Being Loved

No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Needs #Likes #Remember

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Truth #Errors #Path

Ethics and aesthetics are one.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Ethics #Aesthetic #Aesthetics

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Games #Doubt #Certainty

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

#Philosophical #Math #Reality

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

#Happiness #Sarcastic #Philosophy

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.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Philosophy #Doors #Trying

The face is the soul of the body.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Philosophical #Soul #Body

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Philosophical #Reality #Mirrors

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Judging #Reason #Fraud

He who lives in the present lives in eternity.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Time #Eternity #Live In The Present

With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Philosophical #Mountain #Mathematics

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

#Reality #Language #Harmony

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Silence #Logic #Speak

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

#Philosophical #Tree #Tragedy

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

#Philosophy #Skills #Philosopher

Tell them I've had a wonderful life.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Wonderful #Wonderful Life #Last Words

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

#Philosophical #Air #Discussion

The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Happiness #Different #World

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Wisdom #Communication #Philosophical

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Philosophy #Philosophical #Silence

In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Philosophy #Philosophical #Mean

If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Attitude #Thinking #Important

My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Patents #Pieces #Nonsense

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

#Philosophy #Philosophical #Mean

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Knowledge #Ends #Acknowledgement

I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Science #Mathematics

The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Self #Doe #World

Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Science #Mathematics

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Science #Understanding #Mathematics

Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Philosophy #Limits #Unthinkable