Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.

Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

If you find an idea without form, please let me know because I would love to take a picture of it.

The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life inherent in symbols; so that it is wrong to say that a good language is important to good thought, merely; for it is the essence of it.

There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible - giving it form and bringing it within reach. And that is why good paintings are incomprehensible. Creating the incomprehensible has absolutely nothing to do with turning out any old bunkum, because bunkum is always comprehensible.

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Ideas do not exist separately from language.

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.

I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.

Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.

All propositions are of equal value.

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.

Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.