569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

This book will perhaps only be understood by those who have themselves already thought the thoughts which are expressed in it-or similar thoughts. It is therefore not a text-book. Its object would be attained if it afforded pleasure to one who read it with understanding.

Science and industry, and their progress, might turn out to be the most enduring thing in the modern world. Perhaps any speculation about a coming collapse of science and industry is, for the present and for a long time to come, nothing but a dream; perhaps science and industry, having caused infinite misery in the process, will unite the world – I mean condense it into a single unit, though one in which peace is the last thing that will find a home.

The man who said that one cannot step into the same river twice said something wrong; one can step into the same river twice.

Religion as madness is a madness springing from irreligiousness.

So in the end, when one is doing philosophy, one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.

What has to be accepted, the given, is – so one could say – forms of life .

If there were a verb meaning “to believe falsely,” it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

In practice, language is always more or less vague, so that what we assert is never quite precise.

It’s only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.