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

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

The world is everything that is the case.

Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.

Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.

Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.

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.