“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein“I am my world.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein“Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein“Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein“Don't think, but look! (PI 66)”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein“An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein“Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein“In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein“That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein