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

The meaning of a word is its use in the language.

Anything that can be said can be said clearly.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

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.

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.

I want to find something I’ve wanted all along somewhere I belong.

Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.

This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”

The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of his camel; but if the pilgrim spends his whole time in feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.