569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all

It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.

Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.

Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.

You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.

Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.