Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Language is the dress of thought.”

“Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery”

“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”

“Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”

“If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.”

“For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannotbe expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can beput at all, then it can also be answered.”

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

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

The real question of life after death isnt whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

I am my world.

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again I know that that’s a tree, pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

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

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

Dont think, but look! (PI 66)

An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

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