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.

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.

'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of pain'-in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

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

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.