Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes on Truth
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 truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“The world is everything that is the case.”
Original German: Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist . -
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen. -
“What can be said at all can be said clearly, and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.”
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen. -
“One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.”
Journal entry (11 October 1914), p. 10e