The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

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

I am my world.

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

A confession has to be part of your new life.

The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have found, on all essential points, the final solution of the problems. And if I am not mistaken in this belief, then the second thing in which the value of this work consists is that it shows how little is achieved when these problems are solved.

It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence.