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 them: "This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy."
To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
Animals come when their names are called. Just like human beings.
The way you use the word "God" does not show whom you mean but, rather, what you mean.
Scepticism is not irrefutable, but obviously nonsensical, when it tries to raise doubts where no questions can be asked.
The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.
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.
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.
It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists.