50 quotes
Viennese murchant (1845-1925)
“It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves”
"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."
on Mindfulness
"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push."
on Problem Solving
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
on Philosophy
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
on Language
"Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself."
on Self Awareness
"The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves."
on Life
"It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all....."
"Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us."
"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."
"We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all."
"A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably."
on Perception
"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
on Humor
"Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical."
"The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long."
on Wisdom
"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."
"The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for."
"Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything."
on Communication
"He who lives in the present lives in eternity."
"Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery."
"The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not."
on Happiness