The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
Ethics and aesthetics are one.
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line and that its direction changes constantly.
What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.
Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday
I am my world.
[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.
If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.
6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.
Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.
The world is made up of facts, not things.
There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.
All mathematics is tautology.
It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.
Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.
The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it.
If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.
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