569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world

I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent

It is love that believes the resurrection.

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is