If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.

I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'