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Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

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The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

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How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

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But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.

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An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest im...more

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I am my world.

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But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting them...more

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Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is...more

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Don't think, but look! (PI 66)

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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

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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 t...more

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The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

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There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradi...more