The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense. – Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law.
I Once wrote: “In mathematics process and result are equivalent.”
It’s only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.
The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.
Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.
I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not worth much anywhere, but here they are much more good-for-nothing and irresponsible than elsewhere.
There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors.
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.
A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.
If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.
Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.
Golden is a surface colour.
A color which would be ‘dirty’ if it were the color of a wall, needn’t be so in a painting.
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain.
White must be the lightest color in a picture.
Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.
There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.