I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.
The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn’t find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
We learn by rearranging what we know.
If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I.
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Aim at being loved without being admired.
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.