Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.
Ethics and aesthetics are one.
In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.
Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.
Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life? – In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there? – Or is the use its life?
Don’t look for the meanings; look for the use.
A philosophical problem has the form: I don’t know my way about.
I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
Hell isn’t other people. Hell is yourself.
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
Language disguises thought.
Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws. – The functions of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.