Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes & Sayings

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”

“If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.”

“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”

“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.”

“A confession has to be part of your new life.”

“Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.”

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

“Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.”