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“You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

1929, p. 1
Culture and Value (1980)

“I must plunge into the water of doubt again and again.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 119

“If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein book Philosophical Investigations

Pt II, p. 223 of the 1968 English edition
Philosophical Investigations (1953)

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 98e

“A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Conversation of 1930
Personal Recollections (1981)

“205. If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein book On Certainty

On Certainty (1969)

“The Sabbath is not simply a time to rest, to recuperate. We should look at our work from the outside, not just from within.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 91e

“The meaning of a question is the method of answering it: then what is the meaning of 'Do two men really mean the same by the word "white"?' Tell me how you are searching, and I will tell you what you are searching for.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Remarks (1991), Part III (27), pp.66-67
Attributed from posthumous publications

“We must plow through the whole of language.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 131

“Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source: 1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916, p. 75

“Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 9 : Philosophy, p. 183

“310. A pupil and a teacher. The pupil will not let anything be explained to him, for he continually interrupts with doubts, for instance as to the existence of things, the meaning for words, etc. The teacher says "Stop interrupting me and do as I tell you. So far your doubts don't make sense at all."”

Ludwig Wittgenstein book On Certainty

On Certainty (1969)

“The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather — not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i. e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
It will therefore only be in language that the limit can be set, and what lies on the other side of the limit will simply be nonsense.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Preface
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)

“Animals come when their names are called. Just like human beings.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 67e

“Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Comment to Maurice O'Connor Drury, as quoted in Wittgenstein Reads Freud : The Myth of the Unconscious (1996) by Jacques Bouveresse, as translated by Carol Cosman, p. 14
Attributed from posthumous publications

“I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 56e

“Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 44e

“Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 53e

“Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 14e

“Propositions are truth-functions of elementary propositions. (An elementary proposition is a truth-function of itself.) (5)”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Original German: Der Satz ist eine Wahrheitsfunktion der Elementarsätze
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)