“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgment.”

You can’t think decently if you’re not willing to hurt yourself.

Understand or die.

Hell isn’t other people. Hell is yourself.

Language disguises thought.

Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world.

That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence.

Religion as madness is a madness springing from irreligiousness.

When we can’t think for ourselves, we can always quote.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

It’s not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.

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

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

At the core of all well-founded beliefs lies belief that is unfounded.

Nothing in the visual field allows you to infer that it is seen by an eye.

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off

Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water?

Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

They sold us the idea of happiness at the price of actual happiness.