The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.

Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

All words are prejudices.

Plato was a bore.

The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.