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Death is not an experience in life; we do not live to experience death. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

The mechanism which we don't understand is not anything in our soul, but rather that of the life of this expression. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

For the essence of the symbol cannot be altered without altering its sense. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1953), went so far as to say that the limits of our language were, indeed, the limits of our world. — Anonymous

The depressed man lives in a depressed world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language disguises thought. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

A mathematical proof must be perspicuous. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

My attitude towards him is an attitude towards a soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul ... — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Music conveys to us itself! — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

To believe in God is to see that life has meaning — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Elementary propositions consist of names. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

About what one can not speak, one must remain silent. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The essential business of language is to assert or deny facts. Given — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The things that cannot be talked about logically are the only ones which are truly important. — Apostolos Doxiadis

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

A confession has to be part of your new life. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The limits of my language means the limits of my world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote — Ludwig Wittgenstein

You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

An entire mythology is stored within our language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

He who lives in the present lives in eternity. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

We must plow through the whole of language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

We are struggling with language.
We are engaged in a struggle with language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you. — Nicole Krauss

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

The world divides into facts. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

There are only two things in the world: nothing and semantics. — Werner Erhard

I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me
whether what I have thought has already been
thought before me by another. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

A logical picture of facts is a thought. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities" -- Pretty Wittgenstein like. — Milan Kundera

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy limits the disputable sphere of natural science. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all ... — Ludwig Wittgenstein

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Don't look for the meanings; look for the use. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

One man's modus ponens is another man's reductio, as epistemologists are forever pointing out (In Critical Condition, p. 70) — Jerry A. Fodor

The limits of your language are the limits of your world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Here it can be seen that solipsism, when its implications are followed out strictly, coincides with pure realism. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood? — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The face is the soul of the body. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent." — Ludwig Wittgenstein

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

There can never be surprises in logic. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The human body is the best picture of the human soul. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The I, the I is what is deeplt mysterious. — Ludwig Wittgenstein