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

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

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

The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.