Quotes from Ludwig Wittgenstein

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy.

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it's this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

What can be shown, cannot be said.

The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

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.