The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.
And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.
I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus were incorporated in it; for these are, so to speak, suburbs of our language. (And how many houses or streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.
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.
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
Elementary propositions consist of names.
We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.
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.
It is love that believes the resurrection.
The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.
You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself
If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.
I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.
Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.
Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them.
Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I.
Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.
"It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given." This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.
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