569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you already have a person's love no sacrifice can be too much to give for it; but any sacrifice is too great to buy it for you.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

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

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.