Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

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.

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

It is not by recognizing the want of courage in someone else that you acquire courage yourself..

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

A philosopher is a man who has to cure many intellectual diseases in himself before he can arrive at the notions of common sense.

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.

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.

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man—but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

In philosophy the race is to the one who can run slowest—the one who crosses the finish line last.

In Rennen der Philosophie gewinnt, wer am langsamsten laufen kann. Oder: der, der das Ziel zuletzt erreicht.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Aim at being loved without being admired.

Man könnte sagen: „Genie ist Mut im Talent.”

People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them — that does not occur to them.

I squander untold effort making an arrangement of my thoughts that may have no value whatever.