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Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.
If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life .
A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.
The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.
The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.
Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.
Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.
What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.
In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.
A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.
If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than opaqueness.
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.
The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.
To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.
When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
You can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed.