Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
The face is the soul of the body.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
What can be shown, cannot be said.
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
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