A picture is a model of reality.
Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?
What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!
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.'
What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.
I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.
Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.
At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.
This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.
A logical picture of facts is a thought.
Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.
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 object than to let the form of the body be recognized.
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?
Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.
Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.
If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.
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