Ludwig Wittgenstein

"What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence, but not in ignorance."

"The facts in logical space are the world."

"One of the most dangerous ideas is that the world must become more and more scientific."

"I don't believe in God, but I believe in Beethoven."

"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who didn't discover it."

"A picture is laid against reality like a measure."

"The world of those who are happy is a different world than that of those who are unhappy."

"About what one cannot speak, one must be silent, but perhaps one can whisper."

"Mathematics is not discovered, but invented."

"What does it mean to say that one thing is bright and another dark?"

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

"Culture is like a big tree full of birds."

"If I have exhausted the justifications I have reached bedrock, and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.'"

"It is immoral to hope when you haven't yet exhausted all the possibilities."

"The more you know, the more you realize you don't know."

"Beauty is found in the eye of one who beholds it, not in the thing itself."

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

"Don't think, but look!"

"The proposition is a picture of reality."

"A name is what we call something that belongs to its essence."

"How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life."

"The rules of grammar are the rules of our language-games."

"Whereof one cannot make sense, one should be skeptical."

"The world is independent of my will."

"One cannot occupy the place of another human being."

"The most difficult thing is to know what to think about."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"The logical picture of facts is the thought."

"Even the finest noble thought becomes inferior when expressed."

"Everything that can be said can be said clearly."