What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.

People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it.

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

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

That the world is, is the mystical.

The world is made up of facts, not things.

I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."