Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only.

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

Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.