1. “A ManWill be imprisoned in a roomWith a door that's unlockedAnd opens inwards;As long asIt does not occur to himTo pull rather than push.”
2. “A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.
3. “A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.”
4. "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
5. "At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded ."
6. “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.”
7. "Eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."
8. “For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word "meaning" it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”
9. “I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
10. "If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever be done."
11. "If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world."
12. ”It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."”
13. “It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150 years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence.”
14. “Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.”
15. “No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently- and tolerantly- to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.”
16. “Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.”
17. “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
18. “The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaphysical subject, the boundary (not a part) of the world.”
19. “The atmosphere surrounding this problem is terrible. Dense clouds of language lie about the crucial point. It is almost impossible to get through it.”
20. “The philosopher's treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.”
21. “The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to.- The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.”
22. “The world is the totality of facts, not of things.”
23. “What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.”
24. “When one is frightened of the truth...then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.”
25. “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
26. “You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.”
