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

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

Only when one thinks even much more madly than the philosophers can one solve their problems.

A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.