“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
More from Ludwig Wittgenstein on Philosophy
“Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.”
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
“The world is independent of my will.”
“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
“I am my world.”
“Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”
“We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.”
“Don't think, but look! (PI 66)”
“Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.”
Others on Philosophy
Nietzsche
22 quotes“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“Nothing endures but change.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds...”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
T. S. Eliot
13 quotes“We have only to conquer Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.Now is the triumph of the cross.”
Sigmund Freud
13 quotes“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”