Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.