Quotes
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ''Wisdom.'' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ''Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.''
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
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.
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
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.
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 present.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.