Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.
If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.
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?
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.
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?
What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
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.
Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!
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.
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.
Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.
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.
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.
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?
Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.
Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
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