You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have found, on all essential points, the final solution of the problems. And if I am not mistaken in this belief, then the second thing in which the value of this work consists is that it shows how little is achieved when these problems are solved.

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.

One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense.

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.