If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

The face is the soul of the body.

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

All I know is what I have words for.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.