569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ambition is the death of thought.

A confession has to be part of your new life.

My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?

A picture is a model of reality.

What is thinkable is also possible.

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?