Notebooks 1914-1916 Quotes

“What do I know about God and the purpose of life?
I know that this world exists.
That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field.
That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning.
This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it.
That life is the world.
That my will penetrates the world.
That my will is good or evil.
Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God.
And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks 1914-1916

“Conscience is the voice of God.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks 1914-1916

“If we hear a Chinese we tend to take his speech for inarticulate gurgling. Someone who understands Chinese will recognize language in what he hears. Similarly I often cannot recognize the human being in someone etc.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks 1914-1916

“The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connexion between art and ethics.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks 1914-1916

“To pray is to think about the meaning of life.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks 1914-1916