You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself

Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.

The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.