Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.

I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.

How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?

Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.

All I'm saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite.

If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. People love the president because he's certain of his choices as a leader, even if the facts that back him up don't seem to exist. It's the fact that he's certain that is very appealing to a certain section of the country. I really feel a dichotomy in the American populace. What is important? What you want to be true, or what is true?

...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

As human beings, why does it take somebody to feel like they're close to us for us to see their humanity? Why can't we see the humanity in people that are distant from us?

Most people like to live in illusions.

And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it.

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.

You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.

The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.

Other people have to understand where we are coming from, including our allies. Our allies have taken advantage of us.

Graeme Smith is capable of reading other people's heads.

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air.

Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know is "intelligent design." Everything we do know is science.

I think that, like anything, people take their image and what they want somebody else to be and then people just run with it. And when you really know the person and really love the person, you recognize that that person is nothing like that.