A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in...
It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don’t have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.
Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: “Let’s have done with it now,” and it’s having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.
One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.
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.
At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.
In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, – and if there were, it would be of no value.
Only let’s cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.
That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.
We must plow through the whole of language.
If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.
What has to be accepted, the given, is – so one could say – forms of life .
You can’t be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.
If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained.