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

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

“The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.”

“That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence”

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

“How small a thought it takes to fill a life.”

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

“I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.”

“What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?”

“The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.”

“There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley”

“Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.”