14 Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes on Reality

Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes on reality

8. To believe in 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.

14. The world is all that is the case. (1)

15. The world is the totality of facts, not things. (1.1)

16. What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts. (2)

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

28. I am my world. (The microcosm.) (5.63)

29. The world of the happy is quite different from the world of the unhappy. (6.43)

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.

73. I read: 'philosophers are no nearer to the meaning of 'Reality' than Plato got,...'. What a strange situation. How extraordinary that Plato could have got even as far as he did! Or that we could not get any further! Was it because Plato was so extremely clever? (p. 15e)

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

122. Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

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

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