Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

A logical picture of facts is a thought.

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

Perhaps what is inexpressible is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.

The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

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.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.