quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. "
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The limits of my language means the limits of my world"
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

"I am my world."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. "
— Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus)

"Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations)

"What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

"This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

"It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it
exists."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus)

"Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving onself."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?"
— Ludwig Wittgenstein (Culture and Value)

"If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

"If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

"I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church....

Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein