16852 E Ludwig Wittgenstein I am my world.
World
World
16854 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Only describe, don't explain.
Knowledge
Knowledge
16943 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Living with human beings is hard!
Human relations
Human relations
16956 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The world is independent of my will.
Will
Will
16892 E Ludwig Wittgenstein There can never be surprises in logic.
Logics
Logics
16904 E Ludwig Wittgenstein A logical picture of facts is a thought.
Thinking
Thinking
16909 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Genius is talent exercised with courage.
Genius
Genius
16849 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.
Hell
Hell
16905 E Ludwig Wittgenstein A confession has to be part of your new life.
Sincerity
Sincerity
16918 E Ludwig Wittgenstein We use judgements as principlesof judegement.
Judging
Judging
16981 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The form is the possibility of the structure.
Knowledge
Knowledge
16889 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Anything that can be said can be said clearly.
Writing
Writing
16851 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Deception
Deception
16878 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
Knowledge
Knowledge
16890 E Ludwig Wittgenstein the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
Language
Language
16927 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Logic is not a theory but a reflexion of the world.
Logics
Logics
16976 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
World
World
16985 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The philosopher treats a question; like an illness.
Philosophy
Philosophy
14019 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Lying
Lying
16848 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Philosophy
Philosophy
16859 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
Knowledge
Knowledge
16903 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
Philosophy
Philosophy
16968 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Anything your reader can do for himself leave to him.
Writing
Writing
16846 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Language
Language
16862 E Ludwig Wittgenstein When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote.
Quotations
Quotations
16963 E Ludwig Wittgenstein My life consists in my being content to accept many things.
Life
Life
16900 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.
Ideas
Ideas
16974 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
Philosophy
Philosophy
16844 E Ludwig Wittgenstein If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.
Questions
Questions
16935 E Ludwig Wittgenstein For philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday.
Philosophy
Philosophy
16965 E Ludwig Wittgenstein What we can't say we can't say, and we can't whistle it either.
Knowledge
Knowledge
16871 E Ludwig Wittgenstein You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself.
Thinking
Thinking
16913 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Religion as madness is a madness springing from irreligiousness.
Religion
Religion
16936 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The revolutionary will be the one who can revolutionize himself.
Revolutions
Revolutions
16906 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
Philosophy
Philosophy
16866 E Ludwig Wittgenstein At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
Beliefs
Beliefs
16945 E Ludwig Wittgenstein A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
Language
Language
16926 E Ludwig Wittgenstein More wisdom is contained in the best crime fiction than in philosophy.
Philosophy
Philosophy
16853 E Ludwig Wittgenstein If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Stupidity
Stupidity
16929 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Nothing in the visual field allows you to infer that it is seen by an eye.
Perception
Perception
16869 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.
Happiness
Happiness
16884 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Language
Language
16894 E Ludwig Wittgenstein There are no subjects in the world. A subject is a limitation of the world.
Knowledge
Knowledge
16883 E Ludwig Wittgenstein We are struggling with language. We are engaged in a struggle with language.
Language
Language
16872 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world.
Progress
Progress
16951 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The philosopher's treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.
Philosophy
Philosophy
16912 E Ludwig Wittgenstein No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.
Thinking
Thinking
16970 E Ludwig Wittgenstein In order to make an error, a man must already judge in conformity with mankind.
Error
Error
16899 E Ludwig Wittgenstein What is the proof that I know something? Most certainly not my saying I know it.
Knowledge
Knowledge
16880 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time.
Knowledge
Knowledge
16845 E Ludwig Wittgenstein A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Humour
Humour
16940 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.
Logics
Logics
16931 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.
Fear
Fear
16860 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Philosophy
Philosophy
16979 E Ludwig Wittgenstein If a sign is not necessary then it is meaningless. That is the meaning of Occam’s razor.
Knowledge
Knowledge
16933 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
Language
Language
16957 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The best for me, perhaps, would be if I could lie down one evening and not wake up again.
Death
Death
16868 E Ludwig Wittgenstein What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.
Mind
Mind
16958 E Ludwig Wittgenstein It is humiliating to have to appear like an empty tube which is simply inflated by a mind.
Mind
Mind
16870 E Ludwig Wittgenstein When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
Philosophy
Philosophy
16847 E Ludwig Wittgenstein I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Pleasure and pain
Pleasure and pain
16984 E Ludwig Wittgenstein If we surrender the reins to language and not to life, then the problems of philosophy arise.
Philosophy
Philosophy
16964 E Ludwig Wittgenstein What we find in philosophy is trivial; it does not teach us new facts, only science does that.
Philosophy
Philosophy
16877 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
Philosophy
Philosophy
16932 E Ludwig Wittgenstein A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
Philosophy
Philosophy
16947 E Ludwig Wittgenstein In practice, language is always more or less vague, so that what we assert is never quite precise.
Language
Language
16915 E Ludwig Wittgenstein One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.
Understanding
Understanding
16857 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
Stupidity
Stupidity
16861 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Stupidity
Stupidity
16858 E Ludwig Wittgenstein We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
Dreaming
Dreaming
16888 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.
Philosophy
Philosophy
16920 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
Beauty
Beauty
16874 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.
Knowledge
Knowledge
16982 E Ludwig Wittgenstein What a picture represents it represents independently of its truth or falsity, by means of its pictorial form.
Truth
Truth
16896 E Ludwig Wittgenstein There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.
Mysticism
Mysticism
16954 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.
Philosophy
Philosophy
16919 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The fact that we cannot write down all the digits of pi is not a human shortcoming, as mathematicians sometimes think.
Human nature
Human nature
16938 E Ludwig Wittgenstein To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
Truth
Truth
16895 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
Understanding
Understanding
16944 E Ludwig Wittgenstein There is no such thing as an isolated proposition. For what I call a "proposition" is a position in the game of language.
Language
Language
16850 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
Death
Death
16864 E Ludwig Wittgenstein We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
Science
Science
16882 E Ludwig Wittgenstein This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.
Philosophy
Philosophy
16867 E Ludwig Wittgenstein I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.
Thinking
Thinking
16955 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The man who said that one cannot step into the same river twice said something wrong; one can step into the same river twice.
Philosophy
Philosophy
16914 E Ludwig Wittgenstein It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves.
Thinking
Thinking
16925 E Ludwig Wittgenstein A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.
Knowledge
Knowledge
16961 E Ludwig Wittgenstein It is so difficult to find the beginning. Or, better: it is difficult to being at the beginning. And not to try to go further back.
Time
Time
16879 E Ludwig Wittgenstein 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.
Life
Life
16953 E Ludwig Wittgenstein It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.
Imagination
Imagination
16885 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic.
Conflict
Conflict
16856 E Ludwig Wittgenstein If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Time
Time
16916 E Ludwig Wittgenstein If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Time
Time
16972 E Ludwig Wittgenstein If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don’t have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.
Knowledge
Knowledge
16891 E Ludwig Wittgenstein I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But, if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts of his own.
Language
Language
16893 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.
Religion
Religion
16987 E Ludwig Wittgenstein You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.
Thinking
Thinking
16855 E Ludwig Wittgenstein 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.
Freedom
Freedom
16937 E Ludwig Wittgenstein There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man—but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.
Genius
Genius
16898 E Ludwig Wittgenstein Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.
Knowledge
Knowledge