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

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

And nothing is more wrong-headed than calling meaning a mental activity! Unless, that is, one is setting out to produce confusion. (It would also be possible to speak of an activity of butter when it rises in price, and if no problems are produced by this it is harmless.)

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

Me siento inclinado a decir que la expresión lingüística correcta del milagro de la existencia del mundo -a pesar de no ser una proposición en el lenguaje- es la existencia del lenguaje mismo

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

An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.