Quotes By Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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

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.

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

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.

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

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