Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes - Page 2

Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.

About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.

One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.

Language disguises thought.

To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.

What can be shown, cannot be said.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

One must always be prepared to learn something totally new.

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

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.

An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

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

Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.

The depressed man lives in a depressed world.

One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.

My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.