Quotes from Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

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.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

The world is independent of my will.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

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 one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

It is love that believes the resurrection.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.

Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

The face is the soul of the body.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

He who lives in the present lives in eternity.

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

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

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.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.