The depressed man lives in a depressed world.
What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.
The world is everything that is the case.
Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.
A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
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 Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole planet cannot be in greater anguish than a single soul. The Christian faith - as I view it - is the refuge in this ultimate anguish. To whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart.
An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.
Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.
Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.
How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.
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.
Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
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.
I am my world.
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