 Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental. |
| What can be shown, cannot be said. |
| One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is. |
| When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. |
| What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. |
| The world is independent of my will. |
| It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise. |
| Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. |
| The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. |
| The world is the totality of facts, not of things. |
| Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie. |
| Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. |
| For a truly religious man nothing is tragic. |
| 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. |
| A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. |
| 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 philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. |
