Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. These Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes will motivate you.
Best Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
- “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “When we can’t think for ourselves, we can always quote” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Language disguises thought.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “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.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “We learn by rearranging what we know.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“What is thinkable is also possible.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “The real question of life after death isn’t whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Only describe, don’t explain.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “All I know is what I have words for.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
- “One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word ‘I.'” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.–The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn’t the indistinct one often what we need?” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “One can mistrust one’s own senses, but not one’s own belief.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Don’t look for the meanings; look for the use.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “He who lives in the present lives in eternity.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “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.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty-two years old, yet just one moment ago I realized that I absolutely love lightly toasted bread. Simultaneously, I also realized that I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost sixty years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Hell isn’t other people. Hell is yourself.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It’s my job to put them out of business.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
- “To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Aim at being loved without being admired.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “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.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “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.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “The human body is the best picture of the human soul.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “An entire mythology is stored within our language.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man – but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “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.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
