Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.”

“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.”

“A confession has to be part of your new life.”

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world”

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

“One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is”

“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.”

“The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. - The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.”

“If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done”

“Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”

“A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring”

“At the end of reasons comes persuasion”

“At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded”

“I dont know why we are here, but Im pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”

“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”

“Dont get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.”

“Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.”

“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.”

“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.”

“There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.”