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.
Don't think, but look! (PI 66)
If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
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.
Language disguises thought.
Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.
I am my world.
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...
Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
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.
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
Music conveys to us itself!
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic
An entire mythology is stored within our language.