You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, Culture and Value
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, Philosophical Investigations
The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system of what is believed, and in that system some things stand unshakeably fast and some are more or less liable to shift. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, On Certainty
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, Culture and Value
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, letter to Ludwig von Ficker, 1919
What makes a subject difficult to understand — if it is significant, important — is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, Philosophical Occasions
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, Notebooks, Oct. 13, 1914
We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, On Certainty
Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, attributed, Wittgenstein Reads Freud
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, Notebooks, May 14, 1915
Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, Philosophical Occasions
What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, attributed, Zen and the Work of Wittgenstein
There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, Tractacus Logico-Philosophicus
I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Everything ritualistic must be strictly avoided, because it immediately turns rotten. Of course a kiss is a ritual too and it isn't rotten, but ritual is permissible only to the extent that it is as genuine as a kiss.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, Culture and Value
Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, On Certainty
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, Notebooks
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