569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

The same operation which makes “q” from “p”, makes “r” from “q”, and so on. This can only be expressed by the fact that “p”, “q”, “r”, etc., are variables which give general expression to certain formal relations.

Any serious philosophy can be described entirely through jokes.

The war saved my life. I don’t know what I would have done without it. Now I should have the chance to be a decent human being, for I’m standing eye to eye with death.

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. Of course there is then no question left, and just this is the answer.

The revolutionary will be the one who can revolutionize himself.

The essential business of language is to assert or deny facts. Given.

It is humiliating to have to appear like an empty tube which is simply inflated by a mind.

Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only as a means to this end, not as an end in itself. For me on the contrary clarity, perspicuity are valuable in themselves.

There is no such thing as an isolated proposition. For what I call a “proposition” is a position in the game of language.