569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

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.

To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.

Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.

Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

One must always be prepared to learn something totally new.

So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.

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.

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.

The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn't absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are.