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Death is not an experience in life; we do not live to experience death.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
For the essence of the symbol cannot be altered without altering its sense.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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 man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
— 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
It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
— 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
Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.
— 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
A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The essential business of language is to assert or deny facts. Given
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
If you already have a person's love no sacrifice can be too much to give for it; but any sacrifice is too great to buy it for you.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
A confession has to be part of your new life.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all ...
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
— 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
We are struggling with language.We are engaged in a struggle with language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
We must plow through the whole of language.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
— 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
He who lives in the present lives in eternity.
— 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
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The I, the I is what is deeplt mysterious.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
— 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
A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
It's not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved ... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
There are only two things in the world: nothing and semantics.
— Werner Erhard
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
— 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
Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
There can never be surprises in logic.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities" -- Pretty Wittgenstein like.
— Milan Kundera
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
We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Don't look for the meanings; look for the use.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
The face is the soul of the body.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.
— 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
I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already been
thought before me by another. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Here it can be seen that solipsism, when its implications are followed out strictly, coincides with pure realism.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The limits of your language are the limits of your world.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
A logical picture of facts is a thought.
— 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
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The things that cannot be talked about logically are the only ones which are truly important.
— Apostolos Doxiadis
Philosophy limits the disputable sphere of natural science.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein