The world is all that is the case.

If you already have a person's love no sacrifice can be too much to give for it; but any sacrifice is too great to buy it for you.

Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all exists. This astonishment cannot be expressed in the form of a question, and...

There can never be surprises in logic.

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

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.

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

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.

Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in every part. Put him back into his proper element and everything will blossom and look healthy. But...

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

The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn't absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that...

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.

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

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.

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

6.4311 death is not an event of life. One does not experience death. If one does not understand infinite duration, but irreleviate, then the eternal lives who lives in the presence. Our life is as...

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