Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question. – 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
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. – 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
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn’t find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them. – 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
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. – 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
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine’s attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn’t prevent it being a religious ceremony. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
