The world is independent of my will.

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

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.

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