Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

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.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

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.

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

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.

An "inner process" stands in need of outward criteria.

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.

We have got onto slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a certain sense the conditions are ideal, but also, just because of that, we are unable to walk. We want to walk so we need friction. Back to the rough ground!

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.