It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.
When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line and that its direction changes constantly.
Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.
To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.
The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.
Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.
This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It’s my job to put them out of business.
Could one imagine a stone’s having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?
A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.
Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.
A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.
A picture is a model of reality.
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
The world is made up of facts, not things.
The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.
What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?