569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.

Freud 's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. (Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness.

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

The world is made up of facts, not things.

All mathematics is tautology.