Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

My attitude towards him is an attitude towards a soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul. . . .

People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it.

We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

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