Quotes
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 deluded.
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
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 question.
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
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't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.