569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Don’t ask what it means, but rather how it is used.

A tautology’s truth is certain, a proposition’s possible, a contradiction’s impossible.

Don’t for heaven’s sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

The popular scientific books by our scientists aren’t the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.

Could one imagine a stone’s having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?

A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one’s thinking with only one kind of example.

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

We have got onto slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a certain sense the conditions are ideal, but also, just because of that, we are unable to walk. We want to walk so we need friction. Back to the rough ground!

If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don’t have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.