Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all."

"To be unable to stop is to be unable to act freely."

"A name means an object. The object is the meaning of the name."

"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."

"This is how we have learned to think. This is the only way we do think."

"We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming."

"Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about."

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. This is the true philosophy."

"The happiness of people in their prime is as poignant as the thought of the young."

"The facts all come together in logical space."

"We must draw a line somewhere, but whether to do so is not a question of philosophy, but of practical life."

"It is our certainty, not our knowledge, that needs philosophy."

"In the actual use of expressions we fall short of the old language-game forms."

"Man has to awaken to wonder."

"If a lion could speak, we could not understand him."

"The philosopher's treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness."

"The first step is the hardest."

"For a large class of cases of the employment of the word meaning—though not for all—this word can be explained in this way: the meaning of a word is its use in the language."

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

"The kind of certainty is the kind of language-game."

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

"Building stones is like thinking clearly."

"The limits of language mean the limits of my world."

"You must always be prepared to correct your views."

"Nothing is so important as to dare to take a stand."

"Most of the propositions and questions of philosophers arise from our failure to understand the logic of our language."

"A question has only as much sense as its answer."

"There is no royal road to philosophy."

"The facts all settle themselves in the logical space."