Wittgenstein, Richard

"A new word is like a fresh fruit in the mouth."

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

"Philosophy leaves everything as it is."

"The world is the totality of facts, not things."

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

"If you wish to leave a mark on the world, you have to understand the world."

"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees."

"The facts all contribute to only one end; but we cannot see it, unless we produce it ourselves."

"Imagine someone pointing to a place in the air and saying: the name of this place is N."

"We must pass over in silence what we cannot speak about."

"What cannot be said above all must not be unsaid."

"The world is independent of my will."

"Reality is not in things themselves, but in how we see them."

"The question of the purpose of human life can be answered, partly at least, by reference to the fact that in being bound together by rules of logical necessity a human being becomes a logical being."

"If something is not the case and yet could be the case, this is contingency."

"To work in philosophy is really more a working on oneself. On one's own interpretation. On one's way of seeing things."

"The elementary propositions are the atomic facts."

"The scope of the subject as it is in itself is limited by the limits of the logical space."

"The impossibility of descending into the same river twice is the essence of temporality."

"Being certain that I was right, I was wrong. Being uncertain, I found the truth."

"The value of a sentence lies not in what it says, but in what it shows."

"Art is not the representation of beautiful things."

"A contradiction between statements can only arise if one rules out certain possibilities."

"Understanding a sentence means understanding a language."

"The world is everything that is the case—and everything that might have been the case but is not."

"Mysticism is not the solution to the problems of life. It is the recognition that these problems vanish when we see them from the right perspective."

"The human form is the best introduction to the study of the human soul."

"It is easy to imagine someone always saying to himself: 'I am in pain.'"

"Nothing is hidden: everything is open to sight, if only we look properly."

"The joke has the same structure as the proof."