Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from the southwest.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.

Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?

The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law.