Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

A confession has to be part of your new life.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

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

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

(on Sartre) Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

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

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

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.

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."

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

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

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

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

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

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

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

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.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

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