It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago I realised that I absolutely love lightly toasted bread. Simultaneously, I also realised that I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost sixty years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.
Language disguises thought.
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
Genius is talent exercised with courage.
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.
He who lives in the present lives in eternity.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.
To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.
Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.
Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.
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.
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.
Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.
Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.
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