Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

• 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.

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• An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

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• A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

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• A picture is a fact.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

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• Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.

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• He who lives in the present lives in eternity.

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

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• The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

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• The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

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• I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein (77)

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

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