The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Russell’s books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red – and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue – and no one should be allowed to read them.
What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.
The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.
Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.
Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.
If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images...
An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.
All I know is what I have words for.
Genius is what makes us forget the master’s talent.
All mathematics is tautology.
Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.
A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.
Elementary propositions consist of names.
All propositions are of equal value.
It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence.
It is possible – indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic – to give in advance a description of all ‘true’ logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.
Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.
Suppose we think while we talk or write – I mean, as we normally do – we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.