Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

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

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

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

If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.

To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.

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

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

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

If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.

What can be shown, cannot be said.

Language disguises thought.