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Famous Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
“The world is the totality of facts, not of things”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.”
“Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.”
Source: The Tractatus According to Its Own Form
Source: Philosophical Investigations
Source: Philosophical Investigations
Source: Philosophical Investigations
Source: The Tractatus According to Its Own Form
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Source: On Certainty
Source: Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-1951
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.”
“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.”
Source: A companion to Wittgenstein's
“Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
Source: Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.”
Source: The Tractatus According to Its Own Form
“Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations