Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer.

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.

All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.

The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.

I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.

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.