Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.

There can never be surprises in logic.

A picture is a model of reality.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system of what is believed, and in that system some things stand unshakeably fast and some are more or less liable to shift. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.

A logical picture of facts is a thought.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.

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.

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

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

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

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

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

One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.

The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my surviving forever? Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life?

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