Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.

An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?

The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'.
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'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.