Ludwig Wittgenstein

"One lives in the world as one lives in a language."

"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death."

"The meaning of a word is its use in the language."

"Mysticism is not how the world is, but that it is."

"If you want to know whether it is raining, go outside and look."

"It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists."

"The same proposition can be described in different ways."

"Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity."

"Ethical and aesthetical are one and the same."

"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."

"About what one cannot speak, one must be silent."

"The subject does not belong to the world; rather, the subject is a limit of the world."

"You can't think foolishly unless you think."

"To imagine a language means to imagine a form of life."

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

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

"The individual human being is the most interesting object of study which psychology has to work with."

"Scepticism is not irrefutable, but obviously nonsensical, when it tries to raise doubts where no questions can be asked."

"What can be said at all can be said clearly."

"How should I be able to bow or to curtail my wants, now that I am convinced that the only wealth I shall ever have is spiritual wealth."

"The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem."

"Philosophy leaves everything as it is."

"The facts all matter equally."

"Psychology and physiology are not related as methodology and method."

"Everything we can think of, however far off it seems, is near and akin to thought."

"One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that."

"Our civilization is characterized by the word progress."

"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to."

"Mathematics is a logical exercise in meaninglessness."

"What a curious thing to say, that ethics cannot be put into words."