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Comedy
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein, (attributed)
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Language
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein, (attributed)
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein, (attributed)
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Logic
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks 1914-1916, October 13, 1914
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Philosophy
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"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Relationships
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...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent....
… We could say that the limits of language are the limits of the world… that the limits of my language are the limits of my world. And in that respect, whatever I say must limit the world, must make it finite.
"Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt"
-Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
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Snow
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Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein, journal entry; Culture and Value (ed. by G. H. von Wright and Heikki Nyman, 1980), 1939-40
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Understanding
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Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Books by and about Ludwig Wittgenstein
