14 Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes on Life

Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes on life

5. What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists.

6. The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God.

7. To pray is to think about the meaning of life.

9. Man is the microcosm: I am my world.

27. The world and life are one. (5.621)

30. Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits. (6.4311)

31. It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. (6.44)

56. What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life.

80. I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. (p. 36e)

102. 'Tell them I've had a wonderful life' (p. 579)

110. For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

112. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

132. The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.

138. Tell them I've had a wonderful life.