A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.
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.
We are struggling with language.We are engaged in a struggle with language.
He who lives in the present lives in eternity.
6.4311Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht.Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt....
I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.
Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all exists. This astonishment cannot be expressed in the form of a question, and the...
So in the end, when one is doing philosophy, one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.
What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meani...
When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.
If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people...
Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.
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...
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.
Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinki...
In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.
Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about.
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