No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.

Genius is talent exercised with courage.

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.

It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it.

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?