I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. Read Summary
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. Read Summary
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. Read Summary
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise. Read Summary
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. Read Summary
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. Read Summary
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. Read Summary
The world is the totality of facts, not of things. Read Summary
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about. Read Summary
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. Read Summary
You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language. Read Summary
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. Read Summary
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. Read Summary
The limits of my language means the limits of my world. Read Summary
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. Read Summary
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. Read Summary