569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

The face is the soul of the body.

The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.

We learn by rearranging what we know.

Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time?" If from one day to the next someone promises: "Tomorrow I will give up smoking", does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."

I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church.... Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink.

The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law.

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man -- but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.