569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Music conveys to us itself!

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.

If we hear a Chinese we tend to take his speech for inarticulate gurgling. Someone who understands Chinese will recognize language in what he hears. Similarly I often cannot recognize the human being in someone etc.

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded

Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.

It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all.....

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.