Top 300 Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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2. “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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3. “We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

4. “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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5. “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

6. “Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

7. “Only describe, don’t explain.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

8. “Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

9. “If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

10. “Ethics and aesthetics are one.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

11. “Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

12. “All I know is what I have words for.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

13. “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

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14. “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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15. “He who lives in the present lives in eternity.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

16. “Hell isn’t other people. Hell is yourself.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

17. “One must always be prepared to learn something totally new.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

18. “Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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19. “The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

20. “The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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21. “If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

22. “To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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23. “Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

24. “Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

25. “To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

26. “Don’t ask what it means, but rather how it is used.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

27. “Death is not an experience in life; we do not live to experience death.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

28. “What is thinkable is also possible.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

29. “What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

30. “Genius is what makes us forget the master’s talent.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

31. “To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

32. “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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33. “At the end of reasons comes persuasion.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

34. “Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws. – The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

35. “To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

36. “Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

37. “Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

38. “Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

39. “Don’t for heaven’s sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

40. “My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

41. “Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

42. “A confession has to be part of your new life.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

43. “What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

44. “What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

45. “There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

46. “The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

47. “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.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

48. “To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

49. “The world is independent of my will.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

50. “If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein