What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

There can never be surprises in logic.

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

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