# Ludwig Wittgenstein's best-known sentences

From 'The world is all that is the case' to 'Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent': Wittgenstein's most famous sentences from the Tractatus, the Philosophical Investigations and Culture and Value, with their number.

- 3 votes · 13 items
- Nov 14, 2020 · Annika Nowak
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## Top 13

1. **The world is all that is the case.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921), proposition 1.
2. **What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Tractatus, preface.
3. **A philosophical problem has the form: 'I don't know my way about.'** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Philosophical Investigations, § 123.
4. **All philosophy is a 'critique of language'.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tractatus, proposition 4.0031.
5. **Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tractatus, proposition 4.112.
6. **The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tractatus, proposition 5.6.
7. **Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tractatus, proposition 6.4311.
8. **It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tractatus, proposition 6.44.
9. **Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tractatus, proposition 7, the last.
10. **The meaning of a word is its use in the language.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Philosophical Investigations (1953), § 43.
11. **Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Philosophical Investigations, § 109.
12. **Tragedy consists in this: the tree does not bend but breaks.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Culture and Value, 1929.
13. **Ambition is the death of thought.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Culture and Value, 1948.

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