The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. It is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, but that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something – a form – in common with it.
To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
The real question of life after death isn’t whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
When we can’t think for ourselves, we can always quote.
Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday.
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
That the world is, is the mystical.
Here the term ‘language-game’ is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.
What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.
The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact that we do, does tell us something about the world.
Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.
Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I’m a rather bad guide.
Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn’t. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.
Don’t for heaven’s sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.
How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!