[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.