Quote: A confession has to be part of your new life. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: 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. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: The human body is the best picture of the human soul. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. -- The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: 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. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word meaning it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: 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. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only [Ludwig Wittgenstein]
Quote: If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud. [Ludwig Wittgenstein]