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

What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

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

We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.