You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
Ambition is the death of thought.
What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.
There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
What makes a subject difficult to understand if it is significant, important is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.
The depressed man lives in a depressed world.
A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.
The world is everything that is the case.
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.
The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole planet cannot be in greater anguish than a single soul. The Christian faith - as I view it - is the refuge in this ultimate anguish. To whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.
Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness.
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.
An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.
If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
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