We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.

The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.

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.

We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.