Philosophy Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.”

“Don't think, but look! (PI 66)”

“Language disguises thought.”

“Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.”

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

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”

“Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.”

“What about you, Snipes?" Dunbar asked. "You think there to be mountain lions up here or is it just folks' imaginings?”

“Steve's throat swelled with tension as the intimacy of the moment became more tangible. He moved his eyes from the dark, reflective river, to the dark, reflective pupils in Diane's eyes. They seemed to quiver with tenderness - but then they would grow distant. He found himself continually surprised at the "aliveness" of the person standing just a foot away from him now. She wasn't inanimate: she would flinch if he pinched her, and answer if he asked her. And she was beautiful." -- From "The Grand Unified Story" -- a short story in Zack Love's Stories and Scripts: an Anthology”

“What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.”

“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”