Wittgenstein, Ludwig

"Forget all the rules you ever learned about writing. Almost everything you've already written is better than you think it is."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

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

"Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is the means, it is supposed, by which all goods will be inevitably attained."

"What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence."

"If you want to go down deep, you do not need to travel far; you must go down, not in space, but in time."

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

"Ambition is the death of thought."

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

"A work of art is not determined by bringing beauty into existence."

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

"The good life is a life lived in accordance with nature and reason."

"Zettel is the way thoughts accumulate until they become knowledge."

"It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists."

"A scientific statement that cannot be proven false is not scientific."

"My difficulty is only an enormous difficulty of expression."

"The world divides into facts."

"Tell them I had a wonderful life."

"One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that."

"Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity."

"The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity."

"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."

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

"Words are like the mileposts of thoughts."

"The task of philosophy is to work out the problems that baffle us."

"Ethics does not treat of the world. Ethics must be a condition of the world."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action in spite of it."

"Genius is talent exercised with courage."

"A logical picture of facts is a thought."

"Don't think, but look!"