Quotes By Ludwig Wittgenstein

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.

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

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.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

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

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

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

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

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

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.

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

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.

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.