The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
Ethics and aesthetics are one.
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line and that its direction changes constantly.
What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.
Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.
Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday
If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.
All mathematics is tautology.
6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.
The world is made up of facts, not things.
There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.
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.
Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.
Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.
Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.
Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?
Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.
If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.
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