Wittgenstein, Richard

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

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

"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."

"If you wish to leave a track in the history of the world, you must pay with your soul."

"The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy."

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

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

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

"Genius is talent exercised with courage."

"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."

"The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem."

"One thought too many or too few ruins the conversation."

"What can be said at all can be said clearly; what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence."

"A proposition is a picture of reality."

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

"It is the business of the philosopher to make people understand the questions which are obscure to them."

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

"What is the good of studying philosophy if all that it does for you is to enable you to talk with some plausibility about abstruse subjects?"

"The facts all contribute to setting the problem, not to its solution."

"Don't think, but look!"

"Art cannot represent what art is."

"A man will be imprisoned in a room with an infinite ceiling and no walls, as long as he does not know he can leave."

"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination."

"There is no greater discovery than to find peace within one's own soul."

"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to."

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

"Act so that there is no use in a God. But then, having acted so, there is indeed a use for such a God."

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

"What is the point of philosophy if it does not transcend the sciences?"

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."