Genius is talent exercised with courage.

For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.

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

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. ...Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.