In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

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

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

A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.

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

'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of pain'-in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism.