I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.

I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not worth much anywhere, but here they are much more good-for-nothing and irresponsible than elsewhere.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein