A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I’m a rather bad guide.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Life
- 1889-1951
- Occupations
- philosopher of language, architectural theoretician, logician
- Notable works
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Philosophical Investigations
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I wanted to write that my work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life.
Ludwig Wittgenstein