Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult ‘What is that?
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: ‘This is simply what I do.
It’s not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.
Roughly speaking: objects are colourless.
I want to say: We use judgements as principlesof judegement.
Religion as madness is a madness springing from irreligiousness.
There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.
A right-hand glove could be put on the left hand if it could be turned round in four-dimensional space.
Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.
The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. It is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, but that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something – a form – in common with it.
To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
The real question of life after death isn’t whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
When we can’t think for ourselves, we can always quote.
Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday.
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.