Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.
Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.
You can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed.
What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?
The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.
For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.
The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaphysical subject, the boundary (not a part) of the world.
The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.
The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.
We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.
People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.
A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.
Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.
Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain
Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.
