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.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

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.

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.