The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

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.

To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.