Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

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

Life, Death, Experience

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nothing, Done, Silly

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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Long, Him, Rather

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Means, Language, Limits

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Enjoy, Pretty, Why

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

Fitness, Best, Human

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Cannot, Speak, Silent

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nothing, Difficult, Deceiving

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Reality, Everything, Thought

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

Body, Logic, Doctrine

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

Him, Understand, Talk

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nothing, Everything, Philosophy

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Work, Good, Serious

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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life, Nature, Good

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Down, Stay, Green

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

War, Today, Find

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Great, Single, Free

A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Goes, Taking, Ring

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Wise, Greatest, May

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Battle, Philosophy, Against

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

Philosophy, Show, Aim

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

Word, Striking, Keyboard

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Wisdom, Culture, Seems

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Means, Language, Behavior

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Philosopher

Born: April 26, 1889

Died: April 29, 1951

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