Ludwig Wittgenstein

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

The world is made up of facts, not things.

It is obvious that an imagined #‎ world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.

To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.

Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.

I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.

Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

He who lives in the present lives in eternity.

The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system of what is believed, and in that system some things stand unshakeably fast and some are more or less liable to shift. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.

A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.