569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.

We must plow through the whole of language.

I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.

If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light on the nature of ethics, for suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin. And when one investigates it it is like investigating mercury vapour in order to comprehend the nature of vapours.

A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.

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.

Here the term ‘language-game’ is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.