Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

There is a reason for everything.

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

What are we doing here, that is the question.

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

We all need a meaning to our life.

I would have to think about it for two or three months before I decided to do something which would have meaning. And it would have to be more than just an impression or pleasure. I would need an objective, a meaning. That is the only thing that could help me.

I'm here to make sense.

The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet.

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

Being is the great explainer.

Everybody has a purpose.

Anything I do, I'm doing it for a reason.

I always have a reason for why I do something.

Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out.

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?