Ludwig Wittgenstein

The facts of the world are not the whole truth, only part of it.

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 still in the toils of language and it is hard to escape.

Religion is, as it were, the last stop. The point where we give up.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

If one tried to advance theses in philosophy, it would never be possible to debate them, because everyone would agree to them.

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.

The soul is not a thing. The body is not a thing.

The world of the happy is quite another than that of the unhappy.

What is good is also divine. Peculiar as it may sound, that sums up my ethics.

The propositions of logic are tautologies.

The greatest danger is to be too clever.

It is not a matter of 'fitting' language to reality, but of language being reality.

To say 'I am in pain' is not to make a statement, but to perform a linguistic action equivalent to crying out.

The only way to escape the toils of philosophy is to stop doing philosophy.

My work consists of two parts: the one presented here plus all that I have not written. And it is precisely this second part that is the important one.

Philosophy is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

The problems arising through a misinterpretation of our forms of language have the character of depth. They are deep disquietudes; their roots are as deep in us as the forms of our language and their significance is as great as the importance of our language.

To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.