Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

“To do the job which you’ve got really well; so well that you don’t lose your self-respect doing it’:”
― Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

“Wittgenstein's language has the singularly rare quality of being both colloquial and painstakingly precise.”
― Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

“Wittgenstein dislikes all ornamentation that is not part of the construction, and never find anything simple enough.”
― Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

“Instead of teaching doctrines and developing theories, Wittgenstein came to think, a philosopher should demonstrate a technique, a method of achieving clarity.”
― Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

“Wittgenstein was very much against women's suffrage for no particular reason except that 'all women he knows are such idiots'.”
― Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

“But how did you become devoted to the King who had done all this?’ Sudarshana asks. When did this change of feeling take place? ‘I couldn’t tell you’, comes the reply: I don’t know myself. A day came when all the rebel in me knew itself beaten, and then my whole nature bowed down in humble resignation in the dust. And then I saw … I saw that he was as incomparable in beauty as he was in terror. I was saved, I was rescued.”
― Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

“What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.”
― Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius