9 Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes on Wisdom

Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes on wisdom

33. My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) (6.54)

83. Our greatest stupidities may be very wise. (p. 39e)

85. Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion. (p. 53e)

90. Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. (p. 76e)

113. If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

118. It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

120. It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

125. One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

133. The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.