Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.

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

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.

You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on.

Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.