You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
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.'
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
A confession has to be part of your new life.
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
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.
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
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.
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
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.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.