Ludwig Wittgenstein
A picture is a fact.
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quoteCollection: Thinking
All I know is what I have words for.Collection: Vocabulary
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.Collection: Communication
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 it.Collection: Moving On
We learn by rearranging what we know.Collection: Rearranging
The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.Collection: Life Is
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.Collection: Real
Don't look for the meanings; look for the use.Collection: Looks
What is thinkable is also possible.Collection: Imagination
We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.Collection: Dream
To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.Collection: Truth
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.Collection: Inspirational
One must always be prepared to learn something totally new.Collection: Be Prepared
It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago I realised that I absolutely love lightly toasted bread. Simultaneously, I also realised that I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost sixty years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.Collection: Years
One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.Collection: Eye
Language disguises thought.Collection: Language
He who lives in the present lives in eternity.Collection: Time
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.Collection: Patents
To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.Collection: Believe
I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church.... Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Photography
The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather - not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought). It will therefore only be in language that the limit can be set, and what lies on the other side of the limit will simply be nonsense.Collection: Lying
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.Collection: Judging
In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.Collection: Philosophy
If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.Collection: Eternity
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at allCollection: Real
Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?Collection: Games
Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color.Collection: Wall
The world is the totality of facts, not of thingsCollection: World
It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.Collection: Nexus
There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Real
That the world is, is the mystical.Collection: World
'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of pain'-in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism.Collection: Pain
It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence.Collection: History
The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.Collection: Philosophy
We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.Collection: Description
We must plow through the whole of language.Collection: Language
People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it.Collection: Art
Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.Collection: Change
The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law.Collection: Law
The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.Collection: Happiness