Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in doing so, you did not encounter new images, new linguistic fields.

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.

Roughly speaking: objects are colourless

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how music should be played.

The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves.

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.

In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.

If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.

There can never be surprises in logic.

The aspect of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their familiarity and simplicity.

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded

Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

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.

I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But, if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts of his own.

There are no subjects in the world. A subject is a limitation of the world.

Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.

What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.

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.

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

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

It's not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.

Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world.