Wittgenstein, Ludwig

"The truth is hidden sometimes, but it is there waiting for someone to find it."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"The true end of philosophy is to free us from confusion and bewilderment."

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

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

"A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably."

"The world is everything that is the case."

"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."

"One cannot think without speaking."

"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."

"Don't think, look!"

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

"What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the bottle."

"Genius is talent exercised with courage."

"A man will be imprisoned in a room with an open door that will not pull him out."

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

"All we do is compare."

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

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

"Like everything metaphysical, the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language."

"You cannot lead people upward unless you know the way yourself."

"Not everything that holds our attention is worth our attention."

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

"It is my task to show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle, not to explain the bottle."

"The solutions to the problems are seen when the problems disappear."

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

"The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?"

"Art is the most wonderful of all human endeavors."

"A man who is suffering from despair is like a sick man in a hospital."

"Whereof we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence."