"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"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 |
"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein |
"A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein |
"One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein |
"Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein |
"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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"A confession has to be part of your new life."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein |
"One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'"
― Ludwig Wittgenstein |
"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein |
"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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