Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951The quotations of
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher and logician
1889–1951
43 quotes, most often on Philosophy, Talking and Knowledge.
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Culture and Value (1980), p. 50eDon’t for heaven’s sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
Culture and Value (1980), p. 56e- Culture and Value (1980), p. 76e
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922), 6.522
- Conversation of 1934
Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
Journal entry (8 July 1916), p. 74e- Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7: Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough, p. 123
- Philosophical Investigations (1953), Pt II, p. 223 of the 1968 English edition
What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.
Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 9: Philosophy (chapters 86–93 of the so called Big Typescript), p. 161- Journal entry (1 May 1915)
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922), Preface
- Journal entry (1 November 1914)
- Notebooks 1914-1916, entry for 8 July 1916
