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...
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.
Ethics and aesthetics are one.
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...
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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...
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.
The limits of your language are the limits of your world.
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.
Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
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...
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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...
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.