Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

It is love that believes the resurrection.

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.

We must plow through the whole of language.

Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.

If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.

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

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

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

Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.

Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.

Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.

Golden is a surface colour.

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

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.

One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.

Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.

It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.

So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.

No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.

If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained.

I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.

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

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

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

It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.

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

Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.

That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence

The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Music conveys to us itself!

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

A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.

Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world.

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.

The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing.

Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.

It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all.....

I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthought before me by another.

It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves

Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.