A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.
Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.
A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.
A picture is a model of reality.
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
The world is made up of facts, not things.
The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.
What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?
The popular scientific books by our scientists aren’t the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.
Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.
In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.
To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.
My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me – or else that I needn’t live much longer.
What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.
You learned the concept ‘pain’ when you learned language.