I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.

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.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.