Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.

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 him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

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