Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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.

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

There can never be surprises in logic.

But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.

The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.

It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic. The truth is that we could not say what an illogical world would look like.

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

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.

If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.

In the middle of a conversation, someone says to me out of the blue: I wish you luck. I am astonished; but later I realize that these words connect up with his thoughts about me.And now they do not strike me as meaningless any more.

There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.

Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.

Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.

The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.

He who lives in the present lives in eternity.

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.