Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

• 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

• It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• 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

• For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• 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

• An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• A picture is a fact.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• A philosophical problem has the form: I don’t know my way about.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• 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.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• 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.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• A confession has to be part of your new life.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein (77)

Birth:	26th April, 1889
Death:	29th April, 1951
Nationality:	Austrian, British
Profession:	Philosopher

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