569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws. – The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.

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

You can’t hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed.

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man – but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn’t be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.

A philosophical problem has the form: I don’t know my way about.

You can’t think decently if you’re not willing to hurt yourself.

It is possible – indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic – to give in advance a description of all ‘true’ logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.

A color which would be ‘dirty’ if it were the color of a wall, needn’t be so in a painting.