Famous Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein (45 Quotations)

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Ludwig Wittgenstein – [Words]

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.

Ludwig Wittgenstein – [Photography]

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Ludwig Wittgenstein – [Silence]

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

Ludwig Wittgenstein – [Tragedies]

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.

Ludwig Wittgenstein – [Insanity]