Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

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

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing.

Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in every part. Put him back into his proper element and everything will blossom and look healthy. But if he is not in his right element, what then? Well, then he just has to make the best of appearing before the world as a cripple.

The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic. The truth is that we could not say what an "illogical" world would look like.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.

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

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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

I am my world.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

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.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

Don't think, but look! (PI 66)

An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.