Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.

An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

I is another.

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?

The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented.

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

I am me, whatever that means. I am conscious.

Every act is an act of self definition.

Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.

I don't really consider myself a center.

I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist - I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don't have to solve that problem. It's up to God, if any.

Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return.

A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation.

I believe that it is made out of the same cloth of mind, but it is an add-on, it was something that was specialized to create what we call the self. And it exists for very special purposes and it has very special, and I think by and large good consequences, although not only good consequences.

That I am not my experiences is very obvious. I am the one who is having those experiences. Spirituality has nothing to do with experience.

Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.

It doesn't matter what you do. It matters who you are.

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

A man who finds himself among others is irritated because he does not know why he is not one of the others. In bed next to a girl he loves, he forgets that he does not know why he is himself instead of the body he touches. Without knowing it, he suffers from the mental darkness that keeps him from screaming that he himself is the girl who forgets his presence while shuddering in his arms.