Wittgenstein, Ludwig

"The world is everything that is the case."

"Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is look and see."

"Genuine philosophy must start from perplexity, not from false certainty."

"To understand a language is to master a technique."

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

"If I cannot picture it, I cannot understand it."

"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."

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

"A good joke is no laughing matter."

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

"Whereof we cannot speak, we should not remain silent."

"The question of the purpose of man is the most urgent of all questions."

"To be understood is to be pitied."

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

"A work of art is a unified whole; each part serves the purpose of the whole."

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

"I am my language."

"The most important part of a true education is learning to see."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"If you wish to go down deep, you do not need to travel far; you must travel intensely."

"The solution to the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time."

"Perhaps what is inexpressible is the simple fact that there is something."

"Scepticism is not irrefutable, but obviously nonsensical."

"Ethics cannot be taught; it must be lived."

"A man can be profoundly mistaken and still be within the language-game."

"The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws."

"Clarity is the whole point."

"Having the picture is not having understood the picture."

"Where philosophical problems are conceived, language takes a holiday."

"An inner process stands in need of outward criteria."