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

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself

The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'. ... 'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.