569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.

Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.

We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is.

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion . And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.

White must be the lightest color in a picture.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.