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The world is the totality of facts, not of things
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.
Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.
How things stand, is God. God is, how things stand.
To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.
What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.
The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it.
It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.
When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote
Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.
Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.
Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday
So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.
We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
One must always be prepared to learn something totally new.
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.
How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!
Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.
An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.
When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly .
You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself
We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is.
To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.