Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

"Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself."

(Wittgenstein commenting on Sartre's "Hell is other people."

O čem není možno mluvit, o tom se musí mlčet.

Either my piece is a work of the highest rank, or it is not a work of the highest rank. In the latter (and more probable) case I myself am in favour of it not being printed. And in the former case it's a matter of indifference whether it's printed twenty or a hundred years sooner or later. After all, who asks whether the Critique of Pure Reason, for example, was written in 17x or y.

"There is no such thing as an isolated proposition. For what I call a "proposition" is a position in the game of language."

But ordinary language is all right.

When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind.

Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.

A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.

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

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. (5.6)

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

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 it.

Il senso della vita, cioè il senso del mondo, possiamo chiamarlo Dio. Pregare è pensare al senso della vita.

If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don’t have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.