Life Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A confession has to be part of your new life.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

He who lives in the present lives in eternity.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Tell them I've had a wonderful life.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I am now in another hole, though I have to say, it is no better than the old one. Living with human…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say,…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life .

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity,…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

. only of a living human being and what resembles (behaves like) a living human being can one say: it has sensations;…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The temporal immortality of the soul of man, that is to say, its eternal survival also after death, is not only in…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened and will happen to the human soul, but…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis.…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“476. Children do not learn that books exist, that armchairs exist, etc.,etc. - they learn to fetch books, sit in armchairs, etc.,etc.…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Death is not an experience in life; we do not live to experience death.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The mechanism which we don't understand is not anything in our soul, but rather that of the life of this expression.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein