569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Only let’s cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.

You can’t be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

Suppose we think while we talk or write – I mean, as we normally do – we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn’t find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

I know that human beings on the average are not worth much anywhere, but here they are much more good-for-nothing and irresponsible than elsewhere.

Conscience is the voice of God.

Everything ritualistic must be strictly avoided, because it immediately turns rotten. Of course a kiss is a ritual too and it isn’t rotten, but ritual is permissible only to the extent that it is as genuine as a kiss.

Philosophy limits the disputable sphere of natural science.

I Once wrote: “In mathematics process and result are equivalent.”