Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

The greatest danger is to be too clever.

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.

The difficulty is to stop.

The real discovery is the one that makes me capable of stopping doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself in question.

We are struggling with language. We are engaged in a struggle with language.

The limits of empiricism are not empirical.

An entire mythology is stored in our language.

The confusions which occupy us arise when language is like an engine idling, not when it is doing work.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

The world is my world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language (of that language which alone I understand) mean the limits of my world.

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

The inexpressible, indeed, exists. It shows itself; it is the mystical.

The problems of philosophy are not empirical problems.

The results of philosophy are the uncovering of one or another piece of plain nonsense and of bumps that the understanding has got by running its head up against the limits of language.

Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.

What belongs to the essence of the world cannot be expressed by language.

The problems arising from a misinterpretation of our forms of language have the character of depth.

The civilised man is the one who can make a joke.

The only way to be happy is to be good.