Ludwig Wittgenstein

Tell them I've had a wonderful life.

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

Ethics and aesthetics are one and the same.

The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics.

My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them—as steps—to climb up beyond them.

There is no private language.

An answer which cannot be expressed in words cannot be known.

The more I think about language, the more it fascinates me.

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

What has to be accepted, the given, is – so one could say – forms of life.

In most cases it is more important to have the right attitude than the right answer.

I am my world. (The microcosm.)

The sense of the world must lie outside the world.

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

The life of knowledge, it seems, is short; but it is eternal.

It used to be said that God could create anything except what would cause him to contradict himself. So, except for the case of the contradiction with itself, there is nothing that cannot be done.

The face is the soul of the body.

Ambition is the death of thought.