Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.

Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.

This remark provides the key to the problem, how much truth there is in solipsism. For what the solipsist means is quite correct; only it cannot be said, but makes itself manifest. The world is my world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language (of that language which alone I understand) mean the limits of my world. (5.62)

What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts. (2)

The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit -not a part of the world.
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If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.

One cannot reasonably be angry even at Hitler, let alone at God.

لا شيء أصعب من تجنب خداع المرء لنفسه.

Me siento inclinado a decir que la expresión lingüística correcta del milagro de la existencia del mundo -a pesar de no ser una proposición en el lenguaje- es la existencia del lenguaje mismo

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a ‘poetic mood’. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one's thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.

If someone tells me he has bought the outfit of a tightrope walker I am not impressed until I see what is done with it.

What we can't say we can't say, and we can't whistle it either.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.

When I came home I expected a surprise and there was no surprise for me, so of course, I was surprised.