I realize then that the disappearance of a culture does not signify the disappearance of human value, but simply of certain means of expressing this value, yet the fact remains that I have no sympathy...
Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in every part. Put him back into his proper element and everything will blossom and look healthy. But i...
Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
Don't think, but look! (PI 66)
It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on...
Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.
Language disguises thought.
I am my world.
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing.
Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic
The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that...
In the middle of a conversation, someone says to me out of the blue: "I wish you luck." I am astonished; but later I realize that these words connect up with his thoughts about me.And now they do not...
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
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