Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

I like the big questions.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Life is a question without a standard answer.

The meaning of life is life.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

Life is a four-letter word.

I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

Philosophy is an act of living.

The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.

It’s making a statement about what life is, really. And I’m going to end the line with it.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Life is essentially a question of values.

Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.

Life itself is a quotation.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.