Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

The world is independent of my will.

In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.

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

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

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.