When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

The world is independent of my will.

I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church.... Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink.

My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.