569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright.

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.

People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it.

My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

The world divides into facts.

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.