Ludwig Wittgenstein said this quote

“ A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably. ”

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

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

I am my world.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein