Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

2. The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

3. 6.4311Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht.Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt.Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist.6.4311Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through.If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

4. A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably. Philosophical Investigations

5. A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

6. An entire mythology is stored within our language.

7. An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.

8. But doesn't it come out here that knowledge is related to a decision? On Certainty

9. But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting them on different shelves; nothing more being final about their positions than that they no longer lie side by side. The onlooker who doesn’t know the difficulty of the task might well think in such a case that nothing at all had been achieved.

10. Der Zweck der Philosophie ist die logische Klärung der Gedanken.Die Philosophie ist keine Lehre, sondern eine Tätigkeit.Ein philosophisches Werk besteht wesentlich aus Erläuterungen.Das Resultat der Philosophie sind nicht »philosophische Sätze«, sondern das Klarwerden von Sätzen.Die Philosophie soll die Gedanken, die sonst, gleichsam, trübe und verschwommen sind, klar machen und scharf abgrenzen.4.112The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts.Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.The result of philosophy is not a number of "philosophical propositions", but to make propositions clear.Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

11. Don't think, but look! (PI 66)

12. How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

13. I am my world.

14. I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy. On Certainty

15. In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.

16. Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

17. Language disguises thought. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

18. Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. Culture and Value

19. Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

20. Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

21. Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing the explanation of natural phenomena to the smallest possible number of primitive natural laws; and, in mathematics, of unifying the treatment of different topics by using a generalization. Philosophers constantly see the method of science before their eyes, and are irresistibly tempted to ask and answer in the way science does. This tendency is the real source of metaphysics, and leads the philosopher into complete darkness. I want to say here that it can never be our job to reduce anything to anything, or to explain anything. Philosophy really is purely descriptive.

22. Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning. Culture and Value

23. Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered? Culture and Value

24. Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us. کتاب آبی

25. The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long. Philosophical Investigations

26. The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

27. The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

28. There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.

29. We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

30. What is internal is hidden from us." The future is hidden from us. But does the astronomer think like this when he calculates an eclipse of the sun?If I see someone writhing in pain with evident cause I do not think: all the same, his feelings are hidden from me. Philosophical Investigations