The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
Language disguises thought.
Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws. – The functions of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.
The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
There can never be surprises in logic.
The face is the soul of the body.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it.
There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.