Ludwig Wittgenstein

A man’s thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A picture is a model of reality.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

All I know is what I have words for.

Ludwig Wittgenstein