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.
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.
You learned the concept ‘pain’ when you learned language.
For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly .
We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.
We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.
He who lives in the present lives in eternity.
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word ‘I.’
Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.