569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that." - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.

Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.

Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.

What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.