Wittgenstein, Richard

"In the end, I believe that we ought to give up the attempt to think of facts as things that are independent of us."

"When you are not sure, be silent."

"Ethics and aesthetics are one and the same."

"Mathematics is a logical game played according to simple rules."

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

"Music can convey an emotion that words cannot."

"To understand a language means to be master of a technique."

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

"A work of art forces us to have precisely the experience, the vision that the artist had."

"The more we can forget the history of philosophy the more clearly we can see the world."

"Trying to be funny is an easy way to look foolish."

"It is our task to cease the search for the meaning of life and instead create meaning in life."

"The architect's most important job is to create order and harmony."

"One must not forget that a picture which is painted for the purposes of instruction may carry its lesson in every part."

"The sense of the world must lie outside the world."

"The only certain truth is that nothing is certain."

"If it is possible to construct a useless life, then it is also possible to construct a useful one."

"The author should lay down his pen and let the world continue with the reality."

"There is no such thing as philosophy in the usual sense of the word. All that we have is specialized sciences."

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

"Memory seems to teach us that the past is real."

"The wonder of wondering at how anything can be at all is the mark of philosophical wonder."

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

"The great game of human intercourse is played by the rules of language."

"In science there is not 'absolute truth' but only 'better or worse approximations'."

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

"The modern age has not improved the human condition; it has merely complicated it."

"Suffering is the only thing that makes us truly human."

"The greatest enemy of fear is knowledge."

"Power is not what you have, but what you understand."