Ambition is the death of thought.
How things stand, is God. God is, how things stand.
The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.
My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
The world is independent of my will.
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one’s thinking with only one kind of example.
You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.
The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.