Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language disguises thought.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Golden is a surface colour.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I am my world.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A picture is a fact.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A confession has to be part of your new life.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A logical picture of facts is a thought.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“A right-hand glove could be put on the left hand if it could be turned round in four-dimensional space.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The best for me, perhaps, would be if I could lie down one evening and not wake up again.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The sense of the world must lie outside the world... What we cannot speak about we must remain silent about... What can…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in…

— 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

Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker…

— 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

I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless. We cannot, therefore, answer questions of…

— 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

For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

We learn by rearranging what we know.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein