Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in...

Original German: Meine Sätze erläutern dadurch, dass sie der, welcher mich versteht, am Ende als unsinnig erkennt, wenn er durch sie—auf ihnen—über sie hinausgestiegen ist. (Er muss sozusagen die Leiter wegwerfen, nachdem er auf ihr hinaufgestiegen ist.)

My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) (6.54)

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical. (6.522)

Scepticism is not irrefutable, but obviously nonsensical, when it tries to raise doubts where no questions can be asked. For doubt can exist only where a question exists, a question only where an answer exists, and an answer only where something can be said. (6.51)

It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. (6.44)

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits. (6.4311)

Die Welt des Glücklichen ist eine andere als die des Unglücklichen

The world of the happy is quite different from the world of the unhappy. (6.43)

Original German: Das Subjekt gehört nicht zur Welt, sondern es ist eine Grenze der Welt.

The subject does not belong to the world, but it is a limit of the world. (5.632)

Original German: Ich bin meine welt (Der Mikrokosmos.)

I am my world. (The microcosm.) (5.63)

Original German: Die Welt und das Leben sind Eins.

The world and life are one. (5.621)