Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt.

What is the proof that I know something? Most certainly not my saying I know it.

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.

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

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.

Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.

Everything ritualistic must be strictly avoided, because it immediately turns rotten. Of course a kiss is a ritual too and it isn't rotten, but ritual is permissible only to the extent that it is as genuine as a kiss.

The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics.

The usual way of looking at things sees objects as it were from the midst of them, the view sub specie aeternitatis from outside.

In such a way that they have the whole world as background.

If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children 'There are no fairies'; he can omit to teach them the word 'fairy'.

Think, for example, of the words which you perhaps utter in this space of time. They are no longer part of this language. And in different surroundings the institution of money doesn’t exist either.

Roughly speaking: objects are colourless

The aspect of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their familiarity and simplicity.

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

This book will perhaps only be understood by those who have themselves already thought the thoughts which are expressed in it-or similar thoughts. It is therefore not a text-book. Its object would be attained if it afforded pleasure to one who read it with understanding.