Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Symbols are important. It depends on how they're used.

To beautify life is to give it an object.

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.

It is work which gives flavor to life.

Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

As Carol Dweck says, “Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. It would be an impoverished existence if you were not willing to value things and commit yourself to working toward them.

A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

You must find your treasure in order to make sense of everything you discovered on the path.

Everything means something.

Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning

The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.

Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

Love doesn't have a point. Love is the point.

For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.

Without literature, life is hell.

As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.