The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
How things stand, is God. God is, how things stand.
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus were incorporated in it; for these are, so to speak, suburbs of our language. (And how many houses or streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.
For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."
The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.
When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.
We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.
Elementary propositions consist of names.
It is love that believes the resurrection.
You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself
Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.
If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I.
Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.
Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them.
Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.
A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.
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