Quotes from Ludwig Wittgenstein

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.

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

Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly.

People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them - that does not occur to them.

Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.

Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.

Music conveys to us itself!

Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded

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

the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

It's not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.

I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But, if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts of his own.

There is a truth in Schopenhauer's view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say 'Let's get a rough idea', for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.

There can never be surprises in logic.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

If you already have a person's love no sacrifice can be too much to give for it; but any sacrifice is too great to buy it for you.

a nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves.

There are no subjects in the world. A subject is a limitation of the world.

Remember that we sometimes demand explanations for the sake not of their content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural one; the explanation a kind of sham corbel that supports nothing.