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"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."
"Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental."
"The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood."
"All I know is what I have words for."
"Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects."
"When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there."
"Everything that can be said, can be said clearly."
"Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical."
"The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape."
"Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic"
"Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree."
"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."
"The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world."
"Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'. ... 'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either."
"Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness."
"Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world."
"The depressed man lives in a depressed world."
"I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another."
"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."
"A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably."