Quotes from Ludwig Wittgenstein

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves

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

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

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.

Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs

You can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed.

If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.

How things stand, is God. God is, how things stand.

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

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

What is thinkable is also possible.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

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

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

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?