Source: Bemerkungen Über Die Farben
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Famous Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
Source: Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben
“A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.”
“Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.”
Source: Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben
“One must always be prepared to learn something totally new.”
Source: Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben
“We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.”
Source: Zettel
“There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.”
Source: Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben
“Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.”
Source: Remarks on Colour/Bemerkungen Uber Die Farben
“The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“How things stand, is God. God is, how things stand.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is.”
Source: On Certainty
“If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?”
Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951
Source: Tractatus Logico-philosophicus: The German Text of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung
Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951
Source: On Certainty
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951
“Man is the microcosm: I am my world.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“The form is the possibility of the structure.”
Source: The Tractatus According to Its Own Form
“Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“The world divides into facts.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“An entire mythology is stored within our language.”
Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951
“What is thinkable is also possible.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?”
Source: Preliminary Studies for the
“We must plow through the whole of language.”
Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951
Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951
Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951
“When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly .”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
Source: A companion to Wittgenstein's