Ludwig Wittgenstein

"It is the tradition to which the word belongs that gives it its meaning."

"Being complete and simple and at rest, nothing disturbs thy soul."

"Speech and silence. We feel that even if all possible scientific questions are answered, the riddle of life remains completely untouched."

"I have deliberately adopted a style that is purely poetical, not a scholarly style."

"The world of the happy man is a completely different one."

"What makes a subject hard to understand—if it is significant, important—is not that before you can understand it you need to be specially trained in abstruse matters, but the contrast between understanding the subject and what most people want to see."

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

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

"A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably."

"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."

"If we could only see the world as a child sees it, we would see the magic that surrounds us."

"A man will be imprisoned in a room with an open door, so he will not think to try it."

"The more you own, the more it owns you."

"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."

"How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes."

"Genius is talent exercised with courage."

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

"One cannot think clearly if one is not willing to hurt nobody's feelings."

"An honest religious believer is countercultural by definition."

"It is so hard to believe that something so obvious could be overlooked."

"The more narrowly we examine language, the sharper becomes the conflict between it and our requirement."

"A person who cannot lose himself in thought is in a bad way."

"Work on yourself, on your inner self."

"The same proposition may get different aspect emphasized and so come to look different."

"Strange how the world is made up of longing, not meaning."

"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience if we do not know how to set about the next time?"

"The cry 'Help!' is an expression of pain, not a description of it."

"Ethics and aesthetics are one and the same."

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

"In order to draw a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable."