569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.

Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.

Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only.

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.

Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.