Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life.
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.
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.’
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
A man’s thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
You can’t hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed.
Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.
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.
One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.
What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.