Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
All Quotes by author - Ludwig Wittgenstein
" A confession has to be part of your new life. "
Your
New Life
Life
" A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view. "
View
Within
Comparison
" A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. "
Long
Push
Him
" A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. "
Fresh
Discussion
New
" An inner process stands in need of outward criteria. "
Outward
Criteria
Inner
" A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said. "
Said
Will
Well
" A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. "
Like
Never
Ring
" A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about. "
Know
Problem
Way
" A picture is a fact. "
Fact
Picture
" A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. "
Good
Work
Serious
" Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. "
Death
Present
Live
" Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one. "
Great
View
Problems
" For a truly religious man nothing is tragic. "
Man
Truly
Religious
" Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important. "
Good
People
Looking
" I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. "
Why
Pretty
Order
" If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. "
Lion
Talk
Understand
" If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. "
Done
Silly
People
" I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. "
Nature
I Am
Good
" It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise. "
Sun
Know
Whether
" It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. "
Himself
Skills
Concern
" It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played. "
Music
Who
People
" It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.' "
Chapter
Come
Know
" Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. "
Knowledge
End
Based
" Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. "
Language
Complicated
Than
" Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. "
Harmony
Language
Reality
" Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental. "
World
Transcendental
Body
" Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic. "
Look
Cannot
Mistakes
" Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. "
Look
Care
How
" Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. "
Him
Man
Science
" Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. "
Never
Up
Down
Check our other websites:
BookDark
MusicDark