569 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless. ... (They are of the same kind as the question whether the Good is more or less identical than the Beautiful.)

All testing, all confirmation and disconfirmation of a hypothesis takes place already within a system. And this system is not a more or less arbitrary and doubtful point of departure for all our arguments: no, it belongs to the essence of what we call an argument. The system is not so much as the point of departure, as the element in which arguments have their life.

I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthought before me by another.

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.