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"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
"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
 
 
"Language disguises thought."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
"Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie."
― 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
 
 
"The world is independent of my will."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
"Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
"Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
"A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
"A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
"A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
"What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nationality: Austrian-British
Born: 26 April 1889
Neuwaldegg, Vienna Austria.
He was A: Philosopher