Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The world is independent of my will.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Ludwig Wittgenstein