Wittgenstein, Ludwig

"The correct method in philosophy would really be the following; to say nothing except what can be said."

"Man has to awaken to wonder."

"A man is a microcosm of the world."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"The meaning of a word is its use in the language."

"If a man could write a book on Ethics which really was a book on Ethics, this book would, with an explosion, destroy all the other books in the world."

"Incompleteness is not incompleteness, only when compared to a notion of completeness."

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

"A name means something only in the context of a proposition."

"The facts all contribute to only one end; the end we do not know."

"Language is a labyrinth of paths."

"The world is all that is the case."

"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."

"What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but shown."

"All I know is what I have words for."

"The truth works on the individual not through concepts but through his mode of life."

"Whereof one cannot think, thereof one cannot speak."

"How extraordinary that the world should divide into facts, and these into atomic facts."

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

"A person caught in a philosophical confusion is like a man in a room who wants to get out."

"When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there."

"The elementary sentence is the only kind of sentence that is completely analyzed."

"Mysticism is not how the world is, but that it is."

"A curious thing about the ontological argument is that it is supposed to show that, starting from the concept of existence, we can derive the existence of God."

"Practice gives confidence."

"In philosophy the winner of the dispute wins nothing of value."

"Only describe, don't explain."

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

"One cannot be angry at an inanimate object."

"Aesthetic problems are independent of the facts."