Ludwig Wittgenstein

"There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical. (6.522)"

"One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is."

"Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God."

"I cannot get from the nature of the proposition to the individual logical operations!!! That is, I cannot bring out how far the proposition is the picture of the situation. I am almost inclined to give up all my efforts. ——"

"Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it."

"One of the most difficult of the philosophers tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches."

"Dont 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."

"What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world. The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of God to a father. To pray is to think about the meaning of life."

"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."

"The World and Life are one. Physiological life is of course not "Life". And neither is psychological life. Life is the world. Ethics does not treat of the world. Ethics must be a condition of the world, like logic. Ethics and Aesthetics are one."

"It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all."

"You wont — I really believe — get too much out of reading it. Because you wont understand it; the content will seem strange to you. In reality, it isnt strange to you, for the point is ethical. I once wanted to give a few words in the foreword which now actually are not in it, which, however, Ill write to you now because they might be a key for you: I wanted to write that my work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one."