Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical."

"A man who is not afraid is not normal, he is insane."

"The world of the happy is quite a different world from that of the unhappy."

"It strikes me that a religious belief could only be something like a passionate commitment to a system of reference."

"How extraordinary that the world should divide into two sorts of people - those with a taste for hunting, and those without."

"The book was written for those who are in sympathy with its spirit."

"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem."

"The method of philosophy is to show the fly the way out of the bottle."

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

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

"What can be shown cannot be said."

"At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is not founded."

"Stupidity is the only universal capital, it can never be reduced."

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."

"The one thing we should never do is to think all the time about what we should be doing."

"A proposition is a method of symbol construction."

"Belief and disbelief are games people play."

"The ethical cannot be taught."

"The more you analyze language, the deeper you see the confusion becomes."

"Intention and purpose are different - intention is the looking back, purpose is the looking forward."

"Everything is odd if one is always looking at it."

"It is likely that the only thing that can save us is the kind of aesthetic education that we have not yet begun to think about."

"A question has meaning only within a system."

"The limits of language are the limits of logic."

"One cannot work on oneself without working with others."

"There are remarks that sow confusion and remarks that sow clarity. I prefer the latter."

"The concept of pain is characterized by its particular function in our life."

"Doubt can only exist where a question exists, a question only where an answer exists, an answer only where something can be said."

"Ambition is the death of thought."

"A name means a simple thing by itself."