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

“Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.”

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

“For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed.The riddle does not exist.If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.”

“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.”

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

“This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.”