Wittgenstein, Ludwig

"Language disguises the thought so that when we look at the sentence we do not see the thought behind it."

"A curious thought: that of all the millions of faces around us, each one is supposed to be unique."

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

"Knowledge is not the sort of thing that becomes harder the more of it you have."

"Culture is not everything, but everything we do is culture."

"If someone says he has Christian love in his heart, his conception of what love is must be refined and deepened."

"The truth can only be spoken by someone who is already at home in it."

"What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field."

"At the end of reasons comes persuasion."

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. This proposition is the key to solving the problems of life."

"A man who always gives way to others will end up with a will of his own which nobody cares about."

"One cannot think about thinking without thinking of thinking."

"Work on yourself."

"The work of the philosopher consists in assembling reminders for a particular purpose."

"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

"I don't believe in introspection. I believe in observation."

"For a truly religious man nothing is tragic."

"What is thinkable is also possible."

"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."

"The more you own, the more it will own you."

"To believe in God means to understand the question about the purpose of life as answered."

"The only way is forward."

"Telling someone something he does not understand is not the same as lying to him."

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

"One human being can be of enormous help to another."

"The fact that we have the word 'beautiful' shows that we believe there is a quality beauty."

"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."

"Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting on one leg."

"It is the business of chemistry to know about kinds of atoms and their properties."

"I have made mistakes which were very difficult to acknowledge fully."