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.
I am my world.
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.
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.
There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
[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.
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.
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.
Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.
The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it.
The world is made up of facts, not things.
Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?
If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.
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?
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.
Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!
Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
All mathematics is tautology.
What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
A picture is a model of reality.
I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.
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