Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes

" If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. " # Intelligence and Intellectuals

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

" The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for. " # Vocabulary # Language # Words

" Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. " # Silence # Truth # Memory

" Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. " # Language # Philosophers and Philosophy # Intelligence and Intellectuals

" 253. At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded. " # Censure # Belief # Lies and Lying

" The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy. " # Happiness

" One might say: Genius is talent exercised with courage. (p. 38e) " # Genius # Exercise # Courage

" The human body is the best picture of the human soul. " # Health # Imagination # Soul

" The world is the totality of facts, not things. (1.1) " # Love