The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

You can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.