 Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. |
| The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. |
| A picture is a fact. |
| Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. |
| Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. |
| If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. |
| A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. |
| Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. |
| One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' |
| Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. |
| Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. |
| 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." |
| Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. |
| An inner process stands in need of outward criteria. |
| A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. |
| Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. |
| 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. |
| Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic. |
| A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about. |
| 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. |
