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...
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
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...
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.
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
The world is independent of my will.
The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.
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.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
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.'
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.
It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all.....
There can never be surprises in logic.
I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
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...
Ethics and aesthetics are one.
I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthought before me by another.
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'...