Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”

“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”

“Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.”

“Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.”

“Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.”

“It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.”

“It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'”

“It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.”

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

“One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.”