Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.”

“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.”

“Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”

“Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.”

“Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.”

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

“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.”

“One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'”

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

“Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.”