A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.

The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact that we do, does tell us something about the world.

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.

[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.

In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.