192 quotes
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
Personal Recollections (1981)
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.
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993)
A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death.
Culture and Value (1980)
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
Personal Recollections (1981)
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language.
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
One might say: Genius is talent exercised with courage.
Culture and Value (1980)
To pray is to think about the meaning of life.
To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993)
What has to be accepted, the given, is — so one could say — forms of life.
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
Is it just I who cannot found a school, or can a philosopher never do so?
Culture and Value (1980)
If someone is merely ahead of his time, it will catch up to him one day.
Culture and Value (1980)
A philosopher is a man who has to cure many intellectual diseases in himself before he can arrive at the notions of common sense.
Culture and Value (1980)
You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
Culture and Value (1980)
Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.
For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules — it hasn't been taught us by means of strict rules, either.
The Blue Book (1931)
Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Culture and Value (1980)