569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

What is your aim in philosophy? - To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

With my full philosophical rucksack, I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.

One interesting thing is the idea that people have of a kind of science of Aesthetics.

If the place I wanted to arrive at could only be reached by a ladder, I would give up trying to arrive at it. For the place I really have to reach is where I must already be. What is reachable by a ladder doesn't interest me.

Aim at being loved without being admired.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.