Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
Topics: Words, Language
If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
Topics: Decisions
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
Topics: Prison
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
Topics: Philosophy, Comedy
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
Topics: Language, Words
The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
Topics: Behavior, Manners
If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
Topics: Health
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
Topics: Knowledge
I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
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- Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich Austrian Political leader
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