Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Philosopher Austrian-British 1889 – 1951

Revolutionized philosophy of language and logic through analysis.

380 quotes

"Facts alone are not enough; we need understanding."
Wisdom
"Music is the most concrete of the arts."
Music
"The best picture is the one that captures the essential form."
Art
"Language games are the base of how we understand reality."
Philosophy
"To see a thing correctly, we must see it from multiple perspectives."
Wisdom
"What cannot be said should not be whispered."
Truth
"A question that cannot be answered is not really a question."
Philosophy
"The way out of the bottle is not to struggle harder but to see clearly."
Wisdom
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
Work
"The most profound truths are the simplest."
Wisdom
"To understand the world, we must understand ourselves."
Philosophy
"The picture of a fact is a fact itself."
Philosophy
"We are not thinking clearly until we are silent."
Peace
"The work of philosophy is done in the silence of the mind."
Solitude
"What is unspoken is often the most important."
Truth
"The eye sees only what the mind is ready to comprehend."
Wisdom
"Meaning is use; use is meaning."
Philosophy
"We must become as children again to see truly."
Wisdom
"The form of life is expressed through language."
Philosophy
"To make a clear picture is to make a clear thought."
"Understanding requires both knowledge and humility."
Wisdom
"The more you own, the more it owns you."
Wisdom
"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
Philosophy
"The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy."
Happiness
"We cannot think of anything we cannot think of."
Knowledge
"At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded."
Faith
"The picture held us captive, and we could not get outside it."
Philosophy
"One of the most dangerous of errors is to suppose that pain is a simple idea."
Wisdom
"A man will be imprisoned in a room with an open door that he does not see."
Freedom
"The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem."
Life