Ludwig Wittgenstein

Religion is, as it were, the last stop.

An honest confession is good for the soul.

We are talking about the spatial and temporal phenomenon of language, not about some non-spatial, non-temporal chimera.

The difficulty is to realize the groundlessness of our believing.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

If you want to go down deep, you must go down in the same way whether you are digging a well or a tunnel.

It is not a something, but not a nothing either! The conclusion was that it was a 'something about which nothing can be said', or a 'nothing about which something can be said'.

What is essential to the picture is that it is a picture of this and of that.

The philosopher's task is to clarify the use of language.

The confusions which occupy us arise when language is, as it were, idling, not when it is doing work.

We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.

The difficulty is not to find the solution but to recognize it.

The only way to escape from the philosophical fly-bottle is to show the fly the way out.

The game is played.

If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.

One of the most important things in life is to be able to laugh at oneself.

If people never did anything silly, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

If you use a word, you must know what it means.

The only way to escape the philosophical fly-bottle is to show the fly the way out.