What is thinkable is also possible.
I won’t say ‘See you tomorrow’ because that would be like predicting the future, and I’m pretty sure I can’t do that.
I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.
Man is the microcosm: I am my world.
You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.
Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.
The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.
If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
We just do not see how very specialized the use of “I know” is.
Ambition is the death of thought.
How things stand, is God. God is, how things stand.
The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.
My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
The world is independent of my will.
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.