569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one's thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I.

If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained.

The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.

A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.