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  • A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

    Men   Thinking   Views  
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”
  • When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.30, University of Chicago Press
  • The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.32, University of Chicago Press
  • Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say:;: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1974). “Philosophical Grammar: Part I, The Proposition, and Its Sense, Part II, On Logic and Mathematics”, p.122, Univ of California Press
  • It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.

    Nexus   Clear  
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.77, University of Chicago Press
  • Don't 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.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.50, University of Chicago Press
  • I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.

  • Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

    Philosophy   Use   May  
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”
  • 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.

    Religious   Air   Support  
  • The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.

  • A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.133, John Wiley & Sons
  • The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

  • What is thinkable is also possible.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.35, Courier Corporation
  • A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.

    "Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951" edited by James Carl Klagge and Alfred Nordmann, Ch. 7, (p. 123), 1993.
  • The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

    Real   Doe   Problem  
  • We must plow through the whole of language.

    Language   Whole  
    Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.131, Hackett Publishing
  • That the world is, is the mystical.

    World   Mystical  
  • For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

    Class   Use   Language  
    "Philosophical Investigations" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, (§ 43), 1953.
  • 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.

    Mean   Thinking   Church  
  • One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.135, John Wiley & Sons
  • Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

    Realism   Idealism   Ifs  
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.79, University of Chicago Press
  • Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs

    Believe   Proof   Results  
  • In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

    Doe   Would Be   World  
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.105, Courier Corporation
  • Aim at being loved without being admired.

    "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 38e), 1980.
  • A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

    "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, p. 2e, 1980.
  • All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.23, Psychology Press
  • The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.135, John Wiley & Sons
  • 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.

    Peace   Philosophy   Real  
    "Philosophical Investigations". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, § 133, 1953.
  • The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.

    Happiness   Fate   Grace  
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.71, University of Chicago Press
  • The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons
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Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • Born: April 26, 1889
  • Died: April 29, 1951
  • Occupation: Philosopher