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

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.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.

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

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.