569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don’t have to fear for what’s in it.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Waltzing is not the same thing as dancing, since the rhumba is also a dance but it is not a waltz. It therefore follows that one can waltz without dancing the waltz.

It’s impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

The fact that we cannot write down all the digits of pi is not a human shortcoming, as mathematicians sometimes think.

There are, indeed, things that are inexpressible. They show themselves. They are what is mystical.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word ‘I.’

I want to say: We use judgements as principlesof judegement.

Es ist offenbar, dass auch eine von der wirklichen noch so verschieden gedachte Welt Etwas – eine Form – mit der wirklichen gemein haben muss.