"The face is the soul of the body."

"Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly."

"That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence."

"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

"Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred."

"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.""

"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."

"A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy."

"Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself."

"There is a truth in Schopenhauer's view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say 'Let's get a rough idea', for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads."

"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."

"Our greatest stupidities may be very wise."

"A confession has to be part of your new life."

"Getting hold of the difficulty deep down is what is hard. Because if it is grasped near the surface it simply remains the difficulty it was. It has to be pulled out by the roots; and that involves our beginning to think about these things in a new way. The change is as decisive as, for example, that from the alchemical to the chemical way of thinking. The new way of thinking is what is so hard to establish. Once the new way of thinking has been established, the old problems vanish; indeed they become hard to recapture. For they go with our way of expressing ourselves and, if we clothe ourselves in a new form of expression, the old problems are discarded along with the old garment."

"The world is independent of my will."

"At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded."

"He who lives in the present lives in eternity."

"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."

"The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves."

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."

"Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open."

"I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthought before me by another."

"The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing."

"There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy."

"Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic."

"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."

"Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything."

"Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in every part. Put him back into his proper element and everything will blossom and look healthy. But if he is not in his right element, what then? Well, then he just has to make the best of appearing before the world as a cripple."

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

"The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not."

"How small a thought it takes to fill a life."