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„Don’t say: “They must have something in common, or they would not be called ‘games’” but look and see whether there is anything common to all. For if you look at them, you won’t see something that is common to all, but similarities, affinities, and a whole series of them at that. To repeat: don’t think, but look!“
„So in the end when one is doing philosophy one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.“
„It seems to me as good as certain that we cannot get the upper hand against England. The English — the best race in the world — cannot lose! We, however, can lose and shall lose, if not this year then next year. The thought that our race is going to be beaten depresses me terribly, because I am completely German.“
„Why in the world shouldn’t they have regarded with awe and reverence that act by which the human race is perpetuated. Not every religion has to have St. Augustine’s attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn’t prevent it being a religious ceremony.“
„The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.“
„One might say: Genius is talent exercised with courage.“
„Frazer’s account of the magical and religious views of mankind is unsatisfactory; it makes these views look like errors.“
„You can’t be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.“
„310. A pupil and a teacher. The pupil will not let anything be explained to him, for he continually interrupts with doubts, for instance as to the existence of things, the meaning for words, etc. The teacher says “Stop interrupting me and do as I tell you. So far your doubts don’t make sense at all.”“
„Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.“
„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.“
„To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life.To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.“
„What has to be accepted, the given, is — so one could say — forms of life.“
„Though a state of affairs that would contravene the laws of physics can be represented by us spatially, one that would contravene the laws of geometry cannot.“
„A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I’m a rather bad guide.“
„Bach wrote on the title page of his Orgelbüchlein: “To the glory of the most high God, and that my neighbour may be benefited thereby.” That is what I would have liked to say about my work.“
„One of the most difficult of the philosopher’s tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches.“
„An entire mythology is stored within our language.“
„The way you use the word “God” does not show whom you mean — but, rather, what you mean.“
„Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.“
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