[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

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

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.