The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
A confession has to be part of your new life.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
The world is independent of my will.
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
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.
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
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.
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.


LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN