Language disguises thought.
Genius is talent exercised with courage.
He who lives in the present lives in eternity.
Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.
Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.
To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning.
A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
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