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

“Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”

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

“Don't think, but look! (PI 66)”

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

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

“Don't”

“Philosophy is a hallow bone with no flesh on it”

“In the letter he left for the coroner he had explained his reasoning (for suicide): that life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision. ... Alex showed me a clipping from the”

“L'homme est libre au moment qu'il veut l'être.”

“Prayer is based on the remote possibility that someone is actually listening; but so is a lot of conversation. If the former seems far-fetched, consider the latter: even if someone is listening to your story, and really hearing, that person will disappear from existence in the blink of a cosmic eye, so why bother to tell this perhaps illusory and possibly un-listening person something he or she is unlikely to truly understand, just before the two of you blip back out of existence? We like to talk to people who answer us, intelligently if possible, but we do talk without needing response or expecting comprehension. Sometimes, the event is the word, the act of speaking. Once we pull that apart a bit, the action of talking becomes more important than the question of whether the talking is working-because we know, going in, that the talking is not working. That said, one might as well pray.”