Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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I am my world.
 
Only describe, don't explain.
 
Living with human beings is hard!
 
The world is independent of my will.
 
There can never be surprises in logic.
 
A logical picture of facts is a thought.
 
Genius is talent exercised with courage.
 
Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.
 
A confession has to be part of your new life.
 
We use judgements as principlesof judegement.
 
The form is the possibility of the structure.
 
Anything that can be said can be said clearly.
 
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
 
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
 
the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
 
Logic is not a theory but a reflexion of the world.
 
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
 
The philosopher treats a question; like an illness.
 
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
 
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
 
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