The depressed man lives in a depressed world.

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.

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.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

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.

Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.