Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That’s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what’s going on.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.

What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever really have.

It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.

The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.

Life, what is it but a dream?

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? . . . . I have been thinking much about pain. How could I help it? . . . . Sooner or later, regardless of the wit of man, we have pain to face; a reality; a final inescapable, immutable fact of life. What poor souls, if we have then no philosophy to face it with! This pain will not last; it never has lasted. I'll think about what I am going to write tomorrow-not about me, not about my body.

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.

Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?

How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

It was good, it was bad. But it was real, and that's all you have.

The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.

There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

Nothingness is the basis of everything.