The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn'...
It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all.....
Music conveys to us itself!
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'
The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics.The usual way of looking at thing...
The world is independent of my will.
I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into ques...
The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world.
I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthought before me by another.
You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was delu...
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