I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

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.

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.