Ludwig Wittgenstein

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

But ordinary language is all right.

What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?

For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules — it hasn't been taught us by means of strict rules, either.

The idea that in order to get clear about the meaning of a general term one had to find the common element in all its applications has shackled philosophical investigation; for it has not only led to no result, but also made the …

(About Jesus) If He did not rise again, then He rotted in the grave like any other human being. He died and his body rotted.

Tell them I've had a wonderful life.

A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in...

Scepticism is not irrefutable, but obviously nonsensical, when it tries to raise doubts where no questions can be asked. For doubt can exist only where a question exists, a question only where an answer exists, and an answer only where …

It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists.

This remark provides the key to the problem, how much truth there is in solipsism. For what the solipsist means is quite correct; only it cannot be said, but makes itself manifest. The world is my world: this is manifest in the fact that …

Wenn ich die Elementarsätze nicht a priori angeben kann, dann muss es zu offenbarem Unsinn führen, sie angeben zu wollen.

Was der Fall ist, die Tatsache, ist das Bestehen von Sachverhalten.

Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.

It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.

What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.

It is true: Man is the microcosm: I am my world.

The World and Life are one. Physiological life is of course not "Life". And neither is psychological life. Life is the world. Ethics does not treat of the world. Ethics must be a condition of the world, like logic. Ethics and Aesthetics …

There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in …

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.

To pray is to think about the meaning of life.

Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.

One of the most difficult of the philosopher's tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.