A picture is a model of reality.
What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.
Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!
Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.
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.
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
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.
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.
At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.
A logical picture of facts is a thought.
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.
If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
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?
Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
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.
The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.
About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.
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