Austrian - Philosopher | April 26, 1889 - April 29, 1951
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
SnowSleepWalkingDieYouResting
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
FitnessBestSoulPictureBody
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
WorldLimitsLanguageMeans
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
GreenDownHeightsNeverUpStay
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
PeopleSillyDoneNothingNeverGet
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
SpeakSilentMustCannotThereof
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
SeedNewDiscussionFreshGround
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
LionUnderstandTalkHimCould
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.
LifeLiveExperienceDeathPresent
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
ManDoorPushLongWillRoom
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
ThoughtRealityLanguageHarmony
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
TruthWorldLogicFalsehoodPrior
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