A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

'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.

What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.