TPF Quote Cabinet The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.
Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.
If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.
The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
- Selected quotes of Wittgenstein.