Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.
Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?
Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.
A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.
Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'
What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.
A picture is a model of reality.
What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?
Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.
The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.
At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!
I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.
This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.
Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.
Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.
A logical picture of facts is a thought.
Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.
Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.
The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.
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