Only let’s cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.
That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.
We must plow through the whole of language.
If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.
What has to be accepted, the given, is – so one could say – forms of life .
You can’t be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.
If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained.
Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.
A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.
So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.
Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don’t have to fear for what’s in it.
To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.
One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.
You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.
Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it.
Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn’t the indistinct one often what we need?