Famous Quotes by 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

“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