Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much.

Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of you.

If y'can't see with yore own two eyes what's in front of them, then y'better off closin' 'em an' goin' t'sleep, 'tis far more restful! —Gerul

How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

People never notice anything.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.