Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

The face is the soul of the body.

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

The world is everything that is the case.

Tell them I've had a wonderful life.

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

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

In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

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

Music conveys to us itself!

We are struggling with language. We are engaged in a struggle with language.

Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly.

Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world.

It's not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

So in the end, when one is doing philosophy, one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.

Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.

What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.

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.

There are no subjects in the world. A subject is a limitation of the world.

I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But, if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts of his own.

Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.

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

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded

The aspect of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their familiarity and simplicity.

There can never be surprises in logic.

If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.

In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.

People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them - that does not occur to them.

The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves.

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how music should be played.

Roughly speaking: objects are colourless

Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in doing so, you did not encounter new images, new linguistic fields.

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.