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.
Der Zweck der Philosophie ist die logische Klärung der Gedanken.Die Philosophie ist keine Lehre, sondern eine Tätigkeit.Ein philosophisches Werk besteht wesentlich aus Erläuterungen.Das Resultat der P...
Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.
Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
There can never be surprises in logic.
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...
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
If you already have a person's love no sacrifice can be too much to give for it; but any sacrifice is too great to buy it for you.
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...
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed.The riddle does not exist.If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.
At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.
Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite a...
In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.
In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.
I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.