Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.

And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.