Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.

Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?

I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.