569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

He who lives in the present lives in eternity.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.

I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.