Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The atmosphere surrounding this problem is terrible. Dense clouds of language lie about the crucial point. It is almost impossible to get…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“[Philosophy] must set limits to what can be thought; and, in doing so, to what cannot be thought. It must set limits…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I know that human beings on the average are not worth much anywhere, but here they are much more good-for-nothing and irresponsible…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“2.22 What a picture represents it represents independently of its truth or falsity, by means of its pictorial form.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein