Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.

I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not worth much anywhere, but here they are much more good-for-nothing and irresponsible than elsewhere.