“Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.”
“Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.”
“For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.”
“A confession has to be part of your new life.”
“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.”
“There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.”
“Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.”
“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
“You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”
“One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.”
“If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.”
“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”
“A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.”
“Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”
“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.”
“Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.”
“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.”
“A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.”
“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.”
“Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”
“It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.”
“Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.”
“Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“For a large class of cases — though not for all — in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”