Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes - Page 6

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

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole planet cannot be in greater anguish than a single soul. The Christian faith - as I view it - is the refuge in this ultimate anguish. To whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart.

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.

Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness.

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

The world is everything that is the case.

When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line and that its direction changes constantly.

A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.

[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

All mathematics is tautology.

To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.

Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.

A logical picture of facts is a thought.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.