Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
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
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
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A confession has to be part of your new life.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
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
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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
What can be shown, cannot be said.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The face is the soul of the body.
Ludwig Wittgenstein