Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes - Page 3

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

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

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

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.

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

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.

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

Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.

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

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

My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

I am my world.

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

Aim at being loved without being admired.

Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

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.

A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.

My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.