Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

— 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

If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children 'There are no fairies'; he can omit to teach them the word 'fairy'.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you have a room which you do not want certain people to get into, put a lock on it for which they do not have the key. But there is no point in talking to them about it, unless of course you want them to admire the room from outside! The honorable thing to do is put a lock on the door which will be noticed only by those who can open it, not by the rest.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I have extremely little courage myself, much less than you; but I have found that whenever, after a long struggle, I have screwed my courage up to do something I always felt much freer & happy after it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein