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

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.