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

Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.

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

Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly.

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

Music conveys to us itself!

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

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.

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

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

Tell them I've had a wonderful life.

The world is everything that is the case.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.

The face is the soul of the body.