Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

I like to remind myself that everything is meaningless.

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.

It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.

That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

I know for sure that nothing matters.

Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it.

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.

I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.