Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.

Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.

Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.