569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

یک اثر جدی و خوب فلسفی میتواند نوشته ای سراسر جوک و طنز باشد.

The world is independent of my will.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

What makes a subject difficult to understand — if it is significant, important — is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.

The sense of the world must lie outside the world... What we cannot speak about we must remain silent about... What can be described can happen too, and what is excluded by the laws of causality cannot be described.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.

Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given." This is not necessary because it is even impossible . There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.