If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago I realised that I absolutely love lightly toasted bread. Simultaneously, I also realised that I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost sixty years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.

There can never be surprises in logic.