What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

All propositions are of equal value.

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

When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line and that its direction changes constantly.

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.

People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it.