Ludwig Wittgenstein World Quotations

The world is the totality of facts, not of things

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

It is obvious that an imagined #‎ world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

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

The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.

The world is made up of facts, not things.

If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I.

To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

That the world is, is the mystical.

Man is the microcosm: I am my world.

The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact that we do, does tell us something about the world.

The world divides into facts.

I am my world.

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.

The sense of the world must lie outside the world... What we cannot speak about we must remain silent about... What can be described can happen too, and what is excluded by the laws of causality cannot be described.

The world is independent of my will.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.

The world is everything that is the case.

My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright.

The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.

The depressed man lives in a depressed world.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.

Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.