Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

In fairness, I don't think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of what the issues are... Just the same way that people like a good painting, I think people really like understanding, knowing about the world.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.

It's the intent, not the word, that makes something harsh.

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

To know the world, one must construct it

To know is not less than to feel.

If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

How you mean? How you mean? What you know about the team? You just know what you get told girl I see behind the scene

Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.

Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.

Your words and my words are the same, but not our meaning.

What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.