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Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes on Knowledge

Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher whose work transformed 20th-century analytic philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:

    “The world is everything that is the case.”

  • Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:

    “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

  • Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:

    “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

  • Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:

    “A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.”

  • Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:

    “Don't think, but look!”

  • Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:

    “We feel that even when all possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life remain completely untouched.”

  • Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:

    “It is in language that an expectation and its fulfilment make contact.”

  • Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:

    “What can be said at all can be said clearly, and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.”

  • Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein:

    “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”