Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

I am my world.

A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.

476. Children do not learn that books exist, that armchairs exist, etc.,etc. – they learn to fetch books, sit in armchairs, etc.,etc.Later, questions about the existence of things do of course arise, “Is there such...

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 Philosophie sind nicht »philosophische Sätze«, sondern das Klarwerden von Sätzen.Die...

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

There can never be surprises in logic.

Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in every part. Put him back into his proper element and everything will blossom and look healthy....

Hell isn’t other people. Hell is yourself.

Language disguises thought.

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 another...

But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.

I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church….Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the...

If you have a room which you do not want certain people to get into, put a lock on it for which they do not have the key. But there is no point in talking...

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 realize then that the disappearance of a culture does not signify the disappearance of human value, but simply of certain means of expressing this value, yet the fact remains that I have no sympathy...

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. … In philosophy matters are not simple...

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.

Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.

I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthought before me by another.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.

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.

The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.

I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing.

Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless. … (They are of the same kind as the question whether the Good is more or less identical than...