Famous Quotes / Ludwig Wittgenstein
58 Quotations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1. A confession has to be part of your new life.
- 2. A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does ...
- 3. A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physic ...
- 4. A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.
- 5. A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
- 6. A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
- 7. Death is not an event in life; we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not i ...
- 8. Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over th ...
- 9. For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be ...
- 10. For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word "meaning" it can be ...
- 11. For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
- 12. He who lives in the present lives in eternity.
- 13. Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was sta ...
- 14. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- 15. I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am n ...
- 16. If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells ...
- 17. If it is true that words have meanings, why don't we throw away words and keep just the meanings?
- 18. If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
- 19. If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, p ...
- 20. If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.