Ludwig Wittgenstein: Trending quotes (page 9)

“Don't think, but look! (PI 66)”

“Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.”

“When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.”

“Language disguises thought.”

“Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult "What is that?"”

“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.”

“Ethics and aesthetics are one.”

“The world of the happy is quite different from the world of the unhappy.”

“For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed.

The riddle does not exist.

If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.”

“253. At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.”

“What can be shown, cannot be said.”

“When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote”

“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”

“I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.”

“We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”

“If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.”

“How small a thought it takes to fill a life.”

“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language.”

“The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”