The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.
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...
There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face...
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
The limits of your language are the limits of your world.
But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.
People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them - that does not occur to them.
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fello...
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of th...
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
The temporal immortality of the soul of man, that is to say, its eternal survival also after death, is not only in no way guaranteed, but this assumption in the first place will not do for us what we...
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the prese...
I have extremely little courage myself, much less than you; but I have found that whenever, after a long struggle, I have screwed my courage up to do something I always felt much freer & happy after i...
Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
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