It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

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.

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.

A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.

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

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

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.