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.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

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.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

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

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

The face is the soul of the body.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

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

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

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.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

The world is independent of my will.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

What can be shown, cannot be said.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Quote