Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951
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Famous Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
Source: Tractatus Logico-philosophicus: The German Text of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung
Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951
“Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
Source: A companion to Wittgenstein's
“Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.”
Source: Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
“A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.”
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
Source: A companion to Wittgenstein's
“A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“The world is independent of my will.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English
“What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”
“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
“Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.”
Source: Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
“What can be shown, cannot be said.”
Source: The Tractatus According to Its Own Form
“A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.”
“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”
Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916
Source: A companion to Wittgenstein's
“Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.”
Source: Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
“An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.”
Source: A companion to Wittgenstein's
“With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.”
“There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.”