A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

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

Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?

The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things